The rescued Chibok school girl, Amina Ali, was on Wednesday airlifted by Nigeria Air Force Super Puma aircraft from Damboa to Maiduguri along with her baby and supposed husband, Mohammed Hayatu.
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“After Amina was kidnapped, only two (of our children) are left alive”, she said, adding her son and daughter live in Lagos.
Amina Ali handed over to Borno State Governor, Mr Kashim Shettima. The army says she is called Falmata Mbalala.
Fifty-seven were rescued within months of Boko Haram’s overnight raid, six died in captivity and one escaped – but the fates of the remaining 212 girls has remained a mystery.
The 19-year-old is now back with her mum.
ChibokArmy spokesman, Sani Usman, said in a statement that the girl, Amina Ali-Nkeki, was among a group of people rescued by Nigerian troops at Baale community in Borno state.
Nkeki has been reunited with her mother, though sadly her father died while she was held captive.
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, forced more than 2 million from their homes and spread across Nigeria’s borders.
More than 200 teenaged schoolgirls were abducted by the group on 14th April 2014 from Government Girls Secondary School at Chibok who were preparing for science exams.
In Abuja, Obiageli Ezekwesili, one of the founders of the campaign who first broke the news of Amina’s escape, said she had provided “fantastic intelligence” to the Nigerian military about the other girls’ whereabouts as others sang “it’s no longer 219 but 218”.
Tsambido Hosea Abana, a Chibok community leader in the capital, Abuja, from the BringBackOurGirls pressure group, was the first to give details about the discovery. She mentioned to security officials, after her rescue, that they saw her with a man, holding a baby and then made the move to capture both of them.
According to him, the rescuing of Amina Ali who has a four month old baby girl is a confirmation that numerous girls have babies while many others are pregnant.
“Right now she is with the military in Damboa”.
Analysts said it remains unclear if the survivor had been released by Boko Haram or rescued by the army.
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Buhari has vowed to drive out Boko Haram from Nigeria, though the terror group has continued carrying out suicide bombings throughout 2016.
