Ryan Cummings, from Signal Risk, said escape was unlikely given that the Chibok girls were said to have been heavily guarded at militant camps in the Sambisa Forest, a vast semi-desert scrubland.
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While the army claims that Serah Luka was in JSS1, the Bring Back Our Girls have insisted that she was an SSS1 student of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, at the time of her abduction.
“She is not one of the Chibok girls”.
This comes two days after the rescue of the first Chibok girl, Amina Ali Nkeki.
Army spokesman Sani Usman said in an emailed statement that the girl was among 97 women and children held hostage by Boko Haram who were freed on Thursday morning after clashes between soldiers and armed fighters in the northeastern Borno state.
Now 19 years old, the former captive was part of a mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram extremists in April 2014.
In a telephone interview with Channels Television, the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sanni Usman, said the Army carried out thorough investigation, including consultation with the authorities at the Government Secondary School in Chibok before announcing the rescue of Sarah Luka.
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met the teenage girl rescued from Boko Haram two years ago.
A statement by Sesugh Akume, #BringBackOurGirls Spokesperson said the group was excited with the news of yet another rescued Chibok girl.
The military said the teenager was believed to be a Christian pastor’s daughter but Nkeki said there were only four priests on the list of parents and none was called Luka.
Nigeria’s military have described the man found with Amina as a “suspected Boko Haram terrorist”.
The first rescued girl told a Chibok community leader that six of the kidnapped girls had died, but the rest were still in the Sambisa forest where she was found.
More than 15,000 people have been killed and two million displaced in Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the past seven years.
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Cummings also suggested reports of his “defection” with such a prized asset, straight into the hands of the Nigerian army and military intelligence, also seemed unlikely. But the armed group, which past year pledged loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), still regularly stages suicide bombings.
