The Nigerian Army on Thursday, said it rescued another school girl who was one of the over 200 that were abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists sect in 2014 at the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok, Borno State, in the northeast of the West African country.
The lucky girl who has been in captivity for eight years, was identified as Hauwa Joseph and was rescued along with a baby said to have been fathered by one of the terrorists she had been forcefully married to.
Her rescue came two days after another kidnapped girl, Mary Ngoshe, was also intercepted by soldiers fighting the insurgents in the state.
The Nigerian Army confirmed the latest rescue in a post in its verified Twitter handle, @HQNigerianArmy.
“Troops during clearance operations on 14 June 2022 intercepted another abducted girl from GGSS Chibok named Hauwa Joseph, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram on 14 April 2014. The intercepted Chibok girl & her baby are currently in a military medical facility.”
On Wednesday, the Nigerian Army had also announced that it intercepted and rescued Ngoshe as was wondering in forest with her baby.
“Troops of 26 Task Force Brigade on patrol around Ngoshe in Borno State on 14 June 2022 intercepted one Mary Ngoshe and her son. She is believed to be one of the abducted girls from GGSS Chibok in 2014. Further exploitation ongoing,” it also wrote.
On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 female students of the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State in northern Nigeria, mostly Christian aged between 14 to 16, were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist the Boko Haram group while preparing for their examination.
While some of the girls have either been rescued or escaped, over 100 of them are still on captivity with many of them forcefully married off or used by the terrorists as negotiation pawns in prisoner exchanges, offering to release some girls in exchange for some of their captured commanders in jail.
Some have also been reported dead or killed by the insurgents while one of the girls, Leah Sharibu, has become the symbol of the Chibok girls after she allegedly refused to change her Christian religion to Islam as a condition for her release.