“And then she also said unfortunately that about six of the girls may have died over the course of the 765 days”.
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In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from Chibok, in Borneo.
He has been arrested and taken to the regional capital Maiduguri, along with Amina and her baby, for medical attention, the military said.
Other abducted women rescued from the former game reserve over the past year have reported seeing some of the Chibok girls.
“At least they are alive, they are being found and whatever situation and condition, that doesn’t matter”, Bitrus said.
The inability of Nigeria’s government and military to rescue them led, in part, to the electoral defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan a year ago.
He told BBC that Amina was found by the vigilantes after venturing into the forest to search for firewood.
They quoted her as saying her schoolmates remained in the Sambisa forest in the northeast, Boko Haram’s biggest stronghold.
Emmanuel Ogebe is a human rights lawyer, whose work focuses on the atrocities of Boko Haram and for the last two years, on 219 Chibok school girls. Around 57 of them managed to escape, but more than 200 of them are still missing.
“In addition, she is a nursing mother with a four month old baby girl who was named Safiya”.
Hoses Tsambido, chairman of the Chibok Community in the capital Abuja, confirmed the discovery but did not provide details.
Previous military attempts to storm Sambisa have met with mixed success, with soldiers making significant in-roads but failing to finish off Boko Haram after running into bands of well-armed guerrillas, mines and booby traps.
It sparked protests across Nigeria, as people took to the streets, imploring the government to “bring back our girls”. That launched the #bringbackourgirls campaign. She was found with a baby and quickly identified by a civilian, who recognised her. Ms. Nkeki was 17 when she was kidnapped.
Mohammed Hatatu, the suspected Boko Haram militant and alleged husband of the rescued Chibok girl.
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Under Buhari’s command and aided by Nigeria’s neighbours, the army has recaptured most territory once lost to Boko Haram but the group still regularly stages suicide bombings.
