According to #BringBackOurGirls spokesman Sesugh Akume, Nkeki spoke with the Nigerian military about the other girls still held within a heavily guarded area at the heart of the forest. It was later revealed that the Chibok girls were not among them.
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“The Nigerian Government must intensify efforts and give them all required support to seek out the remaining girls”, she said.
Parents had accused former President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s leader at the time of the mass kidnap, of not doing enough to track them down and bring them home.
There were conflicting accounts about how the young woman was found.
It’s not known how many thousands of girls, boys and young women have been kidnapped by Boko Haram in a almost 7-year-old insurgency that has killed some 20,000 people and spread across Nigeria’s borders.
Six of the 219 girls have died during the long period of captivity, activists quoted Amina as saying, but the rest are still being held at a “heavily guarded” Boko Haram outpost in the forest.
Amina Ali, now 19, was found wandering in the Sambisa Forest near the Nigeria-Cameroon border Wednesday with a baby girl she gave birth to four months ago.
The military confirmed in a statement that “the suspected Boko Haram terrorist and the nursing mother have been taken to Maiduguri for further medical attention and screening”.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram kidnapped 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014. “It’s actually one of our Chibok girls, real, identified, spoken to by her own mother”.
Under Buhari’s command and aided by Nigeria’s neighbours, the army has recaptured most territory once lost to Boko Haram but the group still regularly stages suicide bombings. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the immediate aftermath.
Two years after the kidnapping, Amina Ali Nkeki is believed to be the first Nigerian schoolgirl rescued from her captors.
“The mom was very disturbed”, said the neighbor, who did not want to be named.
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The kidnapping of the Chibok girls from their school unleashed a wave of global outrage, backed by figures such as US First Lady Michelle Obama under the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
