It said she was number 157 on a list of 218 students seized, but community leaders cast doubt on the claim, saying her surname suggested she was not one of the Chibok girls.
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The girl is one of three daughters of a pastor of the Nigerian branch of the USA -based Church of the Brethren, kidnapped by Boko Haram in two separate attacks, community leader Pogu Bitrus told The Associated Press.
Nkeki said that his record showed that there are two girls with the name “Luka” and that none of the missing girls come from Madagali, where the military say Sarah Luka hail from.
He said, “We are glad to state that among those rescued is a girl believed to be one of the Chibok Government Secondary School girls that were abducted”, adding that she was receiving medical treatment.
A Nigerian army officer said Thursday that Luka was part of the mass abduction.
On Thursday, Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, was flown to Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari.
The head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents group, Yakubu Nkeki, said unlike the first announcement about Amina, the military had not contacted them beforehand to establish the second girl’s identity.
Mr Buhari said he was delighted she was back and vowed to help her resume her education.
He wondered why the Nigerian Army has refused to unite the girl with her parents so that their claims can be verified.
“The mom was very disturbed”, said the neighbor, who did not want to be named.
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. It aimed to call out the attention of the global community to get their involvement in the plight of Nigerian Christians and ordinary citizens in the near seven-year offensive of Boko Haram. I did not see Amina personally.
Nigeria’s military has been mounting an offensive since late April to flush out Boko Haram fighters from the Sambisa Forest, the group’s primary remaining stronghold.
On Wednesday, a member of a civilian vigilante group set up to help fight Boko Haram told CNN he had been on a nightly patrol on the edge of Sambisa Forest on Tuesday night when when the girl and some companions wandered out around 7 p.m. No girl in Nigeria should be put through the brutality of forced marriage.
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According to BringBackOurGirls spokesman Sesugh Akume, the girl may indeed have attended the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.
