Nigerian hunters found Ali wandering on the fringes of the remote northeastern Sambisa Forest and reunited her with her mother, Danladi said after speaking with the mother.
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Chibok parents refuted the Nigerian Army’s report that the second rescued girl, Serah Luka, was among the 219 kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014. Nkeki was found by vigilantes in the Sambisa Forest after she ran away from a Boko Haram camp with a 4-month-old baby and a man she said was her husband.
He said the government would make it a priority that Amina, who showed Buhari her four-month old baby, can go back to school.
The organization commended the government security forces and affected communities for the effort leading to the rescue of Amina and others kidnapped by the insurgents.
He claimed she was among the girls who were abducted more than two years ago from a boarding school in Chibok.
Amina was discovered by civilian vigilantes and troops on Tuesday last week, and her mother, Binta, flew to the capital, Abuja to meet the president at official Aso Rock residence.
This comes as the Nigerian army confirmed the rescue of another girl, known as Serah Luka, on Thursday.
The military released a photograph of the girl, veiled in a long blue hijab common to the region and similar to hijabs worn by other abducted girls seen in Boko Haram videos.
Osita Okechukwu, a spokesperson for the party, said the news of the rescued girl had renewed faded hope, saying it signaled the beginning of the return of more of the girls. The odd discrepancy raises the question of whether Nigerian authorities are trying to shoehorn the second girl’s recovery into the narrow narrative of the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign which has captured the world’s attention since the 276 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram at gunpoint from their high school dormitory in northeastern Nigeria two years ago.
He said, “Yesterday, Amina Ali, one of the abducted Chibok girls was rescued by the Borno State Civilian Joint Task Force aided by the Nigerian Army”.
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Six people were killed on Friday in a village in southern Niger in an attack thought to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants, the Defence Ministry said. “Although we cannot do anything to reverse the horrors of her past, the Federal Government can and will do everything possible to ensure that the rest of her life takes a completely different course”. If Boko Haram tries to move large groups of girls because of her escape, those movements can be captured by satellites and air reconnaissance.
