Some of the Chibok girls who were abducted and held by Boko Haram insurgents since 2014 have reportedly escaped.
A parent told
Daily Trust 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
who was 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.
It was
gathered that after the news broke, friends and family members trooped to the
family house of Halima to congratulate the family 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 is 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."
Maryam Ali
(Halima's sister), Amina Ali, Rakiya Ntsiha and Solomi Titus were some of the
Chibok girls who escaped before the release of 21 and then 82 following
negotiation with Boko Haram, making a total of 107.
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