“According to Haruna Mutali a community leader in Chibok, their background checks have revealed that this second returnee, Miss Serah Luka was an SSS 1 (Senior Secondary School) learner at GSS Chibok, who was abducted by the insurgents in her home in Madagali, area of Adamawa state”.
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The 19-year-old and her mother were brought to the capital, Abuja, on Thursday to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, who said she had received five hours of medical tests and seen trauma counsellors.
Casting doubt over the army’s account, Yakubu Nkeki, the chairman of the Chibok Abducted Girls Parents group, on Friday denied that the rescued girl, who was named by the army as Serah Luka, was among those taken from the school.
“But my feelings are tinged with deep sadness at the horrors the young girl has had to go through at such an early stage in her life”, he added.
“I called her “Kwadudu”, he said, describing how Amina smiled and grabbed his hand as soon as she heard her pet name from childhood, which means “only daughter”.
Amina Ali was found by troops and civilian vigilantes with a four-month-old baby and a man she said was her husband near the Islamists’ Sambisa Forest enclave in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday.
Officials confirmed she was one of 219 girls abducted from the government school in Chibok in April 2014.
Thursday’s incredible news that two of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram were found has captured worldwide attention, but the details surrounding their recovery remain murky. “Amina’s rescue gives us new hope and offers a unique opportunity for vital information”, he said.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram has abducted thousands of other girls in recent years, rights groups estimate.
Quite apart from that, Nkeki said there are only two girls bearing the Luka surname on the list of missing girls but none bore the name Serah.
“We can only change our position if the principal of the school or the government of Borno State comes out and refutes this established identity of the girl”.
There was worldwide outrage when 276 girls – mostly aged between 16 and 18 – were abducted from their school during a Boko Haram raid on Chibok in April 2014.
Sarah Luka, 2nd Chibok girl rescued.
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Activists named her as Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki and quoted her as saying that most of the girls were still in the Sambisa forest, Boko Haram’s biggest stronghold.
