“The rescue has vindicated all that had consistently called for the rescue of the girls, while conspiracy theorists were busy politicizing with issue to the extent that they claimed no girl was missing”, said Debo Adeniran, the Executive Chairman of CACOL, in his reaction to the development.
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However, Chibok campaigners say that while the girl in question was a pupil at the school, she was actually kidnapped from her home elsewhere.
The group while adding that the VARS was designed by the BBOG Movement and had been handed to the federal government more than one year ago, urged them to use it as rehabilitating victims of abduction requires a systematic process and programmes.
Bitrus said the girl, believed to be about 15 when she was seized, was a student at the same school but was home on vacation at the time of the kidnapping.
The girl rescued earlier this week told a Chibok community leader that six of the kidnapped girls had died but the rest were still in the Sambisa forest where she was found.
Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said soldiers freed the girl after a Thursday night battle in the northeastern Sambisa Forest, during which 97 women and children were freed and 35 extremists were killed.
The #BringBackOurGirls group has stated that the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls, Amina Ali and Serah Luka had renewed its hope on the rescue of not only the Chibok girls but also other girls who were abducted by the Boko Haram sect.
CACOL’s commendation is coming on the heels of the successful rescue of two of the girls held in captivity for over two years by the infamous Boko Haram insurgents.
“The fact is she was abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, and hails from Madagali in Adamawa State”.
Mr Buhari said he was delighted she was back and vowed to help her resume her education.
According to Al Jazeera, the governor’s comments came shortly after Amina met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who had made crushing Boko Haram a pillar of his 2015 presidential election campaign.
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More than 50 managed to escape within hours, mostly by jumping off the lorries and running into roadside bushes, leaving 219 in the hand of Boko Haram.
