Two additional young ladies snatched from Chibok Region, Borno State, by Boko Haram in April 2014 have been rescued by troops of Activity Hadin Kai Theater Order.
Esther Marcus and Hauwa Malta, the two of them 26, were safeguarded by troops at Lagara, a Boko Haram territory in Sambisa Timberland, on April 21, 2023.
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These bring the absolute number of young ladies currently out of the psychological militants’ imprisonment to 125, remembering 107 delivered by the fear mongers themselves for 2018, three protected by troops in 2019, two out of 2021, and 11 out of 2022.
“94 are still unaccounted for,” the Theater Administrator, Activity Hadin Kai Theater Order, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Sallau Ali told reporters on Thursday, May 4, in Maiduguri, as he presented the rescued Esther and Hauwa to reporters shortly before handing them over to officials from the Borno State Ministry for Women Affairs.
“Esther was rescued with her one-year-old baby girl,” he announced further, explaining, “While in captivity, she was first married to one Garba, alias Garus, a terrorist, who was later killed by troops; and she was remarried to another terrorist called Abba; she was with him until her rescue.”
General Ali continued, “Hauwa Malta was rescued with an eight months and 10 days pregnancy; she delivered a baby boy at the Seven Div health facility 10 days after their rescue.”
The Theater Commander disclosed that while in Boko Haram captivity, she was first married to a terrorist called Salman who was killed in a troops-terrorists duel in Lake Chad, after which she was married to another terrorist called Malam Mohammed who was killed in a Boko Haram-ISWAP clash.
He said the troops of the joint taskforce of the Theater Command would not relent in their efforts at ensuring that all the abducted girls were rescued.
