Some of the Chibok girls are still alive – Amina

Hamilton Nwosa
Writer

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Amina found nursing 4-month old baby as ‘Boko Haram Commander’ husband is arrested

IT was bitter-sweet re­union for 19 yr-old Amina Ali Nkek after over two years of being held cap­tive by Boko Haram.

Although Amina was reunited with her mother yesterday, she, however, came back with a pack­age: a baby named Safiya.

The rescued girl was also the harbinger of bad news: six of the girls are dead.

Amina was reportedly rescued by local security forces known as Civilian JTF after she was discov­ered hiding in a house at Baale village, in Damboa local government yester­day.

A vigilante member, who participated in the rescue operation, told newsmen in Maiduguri that Amina told them that most of the girls “may be alive in some of the vil­lages around Sambisa,” a known Boko Haram stronghold where the military is currently car­rying out a crackdown on the insurgents.

“I identified her as soon as we saw her hid­ing with some other la­dies. She was the only girl from Chibok and she carries a baby.

“We took her to Chibok for identification from her parents, then, back to the military in Damboa.

“She said many of the girls are still alive except for six who have died.”

Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima, in his first reaction said the dis­covery was “heartwarm­ing” and hoped “it will lead to the rescue of the remaining girls.”

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram abducted 219 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state.

After several efforts, advocacy and billions of naira down the drain, only a handful of the girls have been found.

Sources also said Am­ina is from the town of Mbalala, south of Chibok, from where 25 of the kid­napped girls came.

Her uncle, Yakubu Nkeki, told Associated Press, a foreign news agency that Amina was later reunited with her mother in Chibok.

“She was 17 when ab­ducted and is now 19,” he said.

Amina is expected to be moved soon to Maidu­guri, the capital of Nige­ria’s Borno state.

In recent days, Nige­rian media reported that the army had launched a number of operations against Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest.

It also emerged that ‘Commander Moham­med Hayatu,’ who claimed to be Amina’s husband has been cap­tured.

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