Some Chibok girls who were abducted and held by Boko Haram insurgents since 2014 have reportedly escaped.
According to Daily Trust, a parent stated that some of them were contacted by officials handling the girls disappearance and that the affected parents might be invited to Maiduguri on a later date.
Halima Ali, one of the young girls who was reportedly married off to a Boko Haram commander under the instruction of the insurgents’ leader Abubakar Shekau few months after their abduction from their boarding school in Chibok, is believed to be one of the escapees.
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It was gathered that after the news broke, friends and family members trooped to the family house of Halima to congratulate them on the good news.
Secretary of Chibok Parents Association, Lawal Zannah also disclosed that he was informed that some of the girls had escaped but was yet ascertain the number.
Zannah said;
We heard that some of our girls have escaped from the forest, but we are yet to get the detail about their number.
It would be recalled that about 276 girls were kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state on April 14, 2014.
Since then, a number of them have regained freedom. 57 of the girls escaped the night they were kidnapped while three of the girls were later found.
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Maryam Ali (Halima’s sister), Amina Ali, Rakiya Ntsiha and Solomi Titus also escaped before the release of 21 in October 2016 and then 82 following negotiation with Boko Haram in May 6, making a total of 107.
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The government said the 82 girls were swapped with Boko Haram prisoners. On May, 27 2017, another girl also escaped from the terrorists.
