A member of the Chibok community, Nkeki Mutah, has told Eyewitness News that there will be more revelations from the girl in the days to come.
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About 57 girls managed to escape later, but more than 200 remain missing.
She is the first of the 219 Chibok girls to be seen since the kidnapping grabbed worldwide attention and put a spotlight on the the violence of Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.
“(My son) said I should take it easy and stop crying”, she told the Foundation.
The circumstances of her discovery have not yet been officially confirmed. Amina reportedly confirmed that other girls were still in the custody of Boko Haram but that as many as six have died in captivity.
Her rescuers have detained this man – a suspected Boko Haram fighter claiming to be Amina’s husband.
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram stormed and firebombed the Government Secondary School at Chibok and seized 276 girls. Her father died while she was held captive, her uncle said.
She was found wandering in the forest, her uncle Yakubu Nkeki said.
“In addition, she is a nursing mother with a four-month-old baby girl, who was named Safiya”.
“And many people have described these young women – girls, between the ages of about 13 and 18 – as the cream of the cream”. Sahara Reporters also reported that she was found with a baby, along with a husband from Boko Haram.
At the end of past year, the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari sparked controversy by claiming the militant group was “technically defeated”, though the Chibok girls were still missing.
The army said Hayatu is being treated well and in line with the “rules of engagement regarding insurgents who voluntarily surrender to the military”.
A senior United Nations official on Wednesday welcomed the freeing of a Nigerian schoolgirl abducted more than two years ago by Boko Haram, but said the jihadist group still holds thousands more people.
UNICEF spokeswoman in West and Central Africa Helene Sandbu Ryeng said for Ali and others rescued, “being freed from Boko Haram and returning home is only the first step”. The military identified him as a “suspected Boko Haram terrorist”.
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The kidnapping of the Chibok girls in April 2014 from their school unleashed a wave of global outrage, backed by figures such as U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama under the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
