“She is receiving high-level medical attention and the best doctors in the state are attending to her. The governor ordered for her release from the military as he wanted to make sure she and her baby daughter received urgent medical and psychological attention”, he said.
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Serah Luka had only been at the boarding school in the Chibok village or about two months before the fighters from Boko Harem raided and kidnapped the girls when they were in the midst of their exams.
This comes as the Nigerian army confirmed the rescue of another girl, known as Serah Luka, on Thursday.
Also doubtful of the identity of the girl is Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Oby Ezekwesili. The governor’s comments came shortly after Amina, the first girl to be rescued, met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
Usman said: “We are glad to state that among those rescued is a girl believed to be one of the Chibok Government Secondary School girls that were abducted…by the Boko Haram terrorists”.
“Amina’s rescue gives us new hope, and offers a unique opportunity for vital information”, he said in a statement issued after the meeting.
A total of 276 girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School. Fifty-seven escaped soon in the immediate aftermath.
Buhari was visibly delighted that Nkeki and her baby had been rescued, but expressed his sadness at the atrocities the young women had suffered.
Former hostages have reported seeing some of the Chibok girls in the forest.
The abducted girls have always been thought to have been taken to the forest. Satellite imagery provided by the United States and Britain reportedly identified the location of some of the students.
Nigerian hunters found Ms Ali wandering on the fringes of the remote north-eastern Sambisa Forest and reunited her with her mother, Dr Danladi said.
“I want to know if my daughter is alive or not”, said Yaga, who plans to formally Wednesday Rebecca, Sarah’s mother and his wife under customary law, at a church ceremony on Sunday. It’s indicative of how widespread and ubiquitous are the Islamic extremists’ tactic of kidnapping girls and young women to be used as sex slaves and of forcing boys and young men to join their fight to create an Islamic caliphate.
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.
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed at a news conference on Thursday that Ali would continue her education and condemned the brutality of forced marriage.
He said that every girl has the right to education and should not be denied access to such.
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“It is an outrage!” said Francisca Vigaud-Walsh, women and girls’ advocate at Refugees International, saying the escapee’s case should not be politicized.
