Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents’ group, also confirmed her name and said she was 17 when she was abducted.
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“And then she also said unfortunately that about six of the girls may have died over the course of the 765 days”. The army identified her as Falmata Mbalala, but the vigilante leader says her name is Amina Ali.
The girl, Amina Alli, was reportedly found near the edge of the large forest, close to Cameroon’s borders.
Shortly after the kidnapping, Boko Haram released a video showing the girls. An ally of the Islamic State, it has largely been beaten back by Nigerian and worldwide forces, who retook most of Boko Haram’s captured territory.
She added that the Boko Haram continues to remain a big threat to the safety of women and girls in Nigeria and it is important that all efforts are made to protect them and to allow “women and girls to live, free from fear”.
One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found in Nigeria, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago.
Other girls may have been found and rescued by soldiers, but their identities have not yet been verified, Chibok community leader, Pogu Bitrus, told the Associated Press.
The BBC quoted Hosea Abana Tsambido, the chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, as saying that Ms. Ali was found by the vigilantes after venturing into the forest to search for firewood.
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the girl is now in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, but will be brought to the national capital, Abuja, to meet Buhari. Around 57 of them managed to escape, but more than 200 of them are still missing.
Boko Haram seized 276 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014.
Early this year, video was broadcast giving the first indication that at least some of the girls were still alive.
Fifteen girls in black robes were pictured.
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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.
