The uncle described the young woman as traumatized. But her father died while she was held captive, he said.
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They quoted her as saying her schoolmates remained in the Sambisa forest in the northeast, Boko Haram’s biggest stronghold.
On Tuesday, Nkek, 19, was found in the Sambisa Forest when a member of a vigilante group fighting Boko Haram, the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), recognized her, BBC News reported.
The youngster was pregnant but further details about her condition or the circumstances of her discovery have not yet be officially confirmed. Nkeki (the name used by the BBC) is the first of the 219 to be rescued since the kidnapping, not including the several dozen students who managed to escape in the hours after the attack.
On Wednesday, the Nigerian military is confirming that one of those girls is free.
A Nigerian schoolgirl abducted two years ago by the Boko Haram militant group, along with hundreds more, has been found alive and reunited with her family, African authorities said Wednesday.
The kidnap of the girls gained global attention in April 2014 with the high profile Bring Back Our Girls campaign, as the Nigerian government came under intense criticism for its initial lax response to the abduction.
The United States, France and Britain offered help to find the girls, sending in drones, hostage negotiators and intelligence officers, in addition to other efforts.
There were conflicting accounts about how the young woman was found.
Their abduction led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, that was supported by US First Lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
The April video’s broadcast coincided with a report by the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF accusing Boko Haram of sharply increasing the use of child suicide bombers – with girls accounting for more than three-quarters of them – in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. One of the girls has reportedly been found near where she went missing.
The girls were taken by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group.
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They became known as the Chibok girls because that’s the name of the town where they were abducted. Today Nigerian troops cleared the Njimia camp and killed 15 Boko Haram fighters.
