On Wednesday, Sesugh Akume, a spokesman for #BringBackOurGirls, said one of the abducted Chibok girls, Amina Ali Nkeki, was found in the fringes of the Sambisa forest by a local group of vigilantes that fights Boko Haram.
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The Chibok schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria this week was transported to the capital Abuja today, where she met privately with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian officials said.
“Rest assured that this administration will continue to do all it can to rescue the remaining Chibok girls who are still in Boko Haram captivity”, said Buhari on Thursday at a brief ceremony held at the Presidential Villa during which he formally met with the girl.
The Chibok kidnapping saw 276 seized from their school in the remote town on April 14, 2014. “Amina must be able to go back to school”.
“Amina’s rescue gives us new hope, and offers a unique opportunity for vital information”, he added.
After Amina was discovered the army said it had detained a suspected Boko Haram militant called Mohammed Hayatu, who said he was Amina’s husband.
On Thursday, the military released pictures of a clean-shaven man in a white shirt and cream pants sitting beside Amina on a hospital bed holding the infant in his lap.
She had been held captive for more than two years by militants fighting to establish an Islamic state.
They were handed over to Borno state governor Kashim Shettima, who declared he would in turn hand her to President Muhammadu Buhari “to present to the nation”.
“However, one of the terrorists who abducted her and had put her in a family way was arrested by the Nigerian army”.
The Islamist group Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly in northeastern Nigeria, since it launched its campaign of violence in 2009. In the past year, the Nigerian leader has replaced the military top brass and relocated the command center to Maiduguri in Borno state, the heartland of Boko Haram’s almost seven-year insurgency.
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“She is a nursing mother with a 4-month-old baby who was named Safiya”.
