The rescue was subsequently confirmed by Nigerian women’s activist Hauwa Abdu.
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A Nigerian schoolgirl rescued more than two years after being taken captive by Boko Haram militants will meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday amid hopes she can help shed light on the whereabouts of more than 200 other missing girls.
Maiduguri – Amina Ali, the Chibok young woman who has been rescued from the Boko Haram sect as well as her baby have passed health tests.
Nkeki has been reunited with her mother, who accompanied her to Abuja Thursday, the AP reported.
“Amina must be able to go back to school”, Buhari said at a meeting with the girl, her mother and officials in the presidential villa.
And what is the fate of the remaining Chibok girls still at the mercy of Boko Haram?
Ryan Cummings, director of the Johannesburg-based security firm Signal Risk, said: “The narrative presented is that the #ChibokGirls are a prized commodity by Boko Haram [and] yet the hostage [was found] wandering in Sambisa [which] suggests otherwise”.
He said her name is Serah Luka and she was from the northeastern town of Madagali, in the state of Adamawa, which borders Borno.
“It’s highly probable that her released was engineered”.
Amina was among 219 schoolgirls rounded up by Boko Haram fighters from a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014, sparking worldwide outrage and strong demand for their release. She mentioned that the other girls were still alive in the forest, except for 6 who died very early on during their ordeal.
“They [the families] are excited but they have also been disappointed so much in the past, particularly during the Jonathan administration [from 2010-2015]”.
A Nigerian Chibok schoolgirl has been found.
He said Amina was taken to her family house in Chibok where she met her mother in an emotional reunion before she was taken away by the military in Damboa.
“This is to confirm that one of the abducted Chibok school girls. was among the persons rescued by our troops”, said the army spokesman, Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman.
Boko Haram captured 276 girls in their night-time raid on Chibok, one of the most audacious assaults of a seven-year-old insurgency to set up an Islamic state in the north.
When she was discovered she was carrying a four-month-old baby named Safiya and pointed vigilantes and soldiers to a man she said was her husband.
He added: “Although we can not do anything to reverse the horrors of her past, (the) federal government will do everything possible to ensure that the rest of her life takes a completely different course”.
“Although we cannot do anything to reverse the horrors of her past, federal government can and will do everything possible to ensure that the rest of her life takes a completely different course”, Buhari said. She is now 19 and, according to the military, a mother.
Some people came together and formed the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, including US First Lady Michelle Obama, the Prime Minister David Cameron and education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
“They are expending a lot of resources and time in the Sambisa Forest”.
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Under Buhari’s command, and aided by Nigeria’s neighbours, the army has recaptured most territory lost to Boko Haram.
