“The Nigeria Union of Journalists welcomes with some relief, the rescue of one of the 219 school girls abducted over two years ago in Chibok, by Boko Haram”, the union said in a statement.
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“The fact is she was abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, and hails from Madagali in Adamawa State”.
This comes two days after the first Chibok girl, Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki was rescued. “Their hope should not wane, as we have every hope that more girls will be rescued”, he added. She was found along a baby nearby the edges of the Sambisa Forest, which is located Between Nigeria and Cameroon.
“She added that there (are) other three girls who fled from Shettima Aboh when the troops invaded the area earlier today which led to their rescue”.
During debriefing, the girl revealed that she was an SS1 student of the school at the time they were abducted.
Campaigners for the Chibok girls question the claim.
Boko Haram captured 276 girls in a night-time raid on Chibok in April 2014, its most high-profile assault.
Mr Buhari said he was delighted she had been saved and could return to her studies.
The president promised the government will do everything possible to help reintegrate her into the society as well as ensure that she continues her education.
Thursday’s incredible news that two of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram were found has captured worldwide attention, but the details surrounding their recovery remain murky.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (2nd-R) holds the baby of the rescued Chibokschoolgirl, Amina Ali-Nkeki (L), during a meeting at the Presidential Villa in the capital Abuja, Nigeria, May 19, 2016.
The head of the BringBackOurGirls campaign group in Abuja, Mrs. Oby Ezekwisili, had expressed joy at Luka’s rescue, but also tweeted, “We have asked for some further verification of her identity”.
“We are saddened even more by deliberate attempt by some miscreants within the cyberspace to denigrate the efforts of the military in bringing about the conditions that made the rescue of these two girls, other women and children possible”.
The girl is one of three daughters of a pastor of the Nigerian branch of the US -based Church of the Brethren, kidnapped by Boko Haram in two separate attacks, community leader Pogu Bitrus told The Associated Press.
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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. “The military is already moving into the forest”.
