Nigeria Chibok girls: At least 80 freed by Boko Haram

[Disir]

Sources told the BBC that the young women were now in the custody of the Nigerian army.

They were brought by road convoy from a remote area to an army base in Banki near the Cameroon border.

The BBC's Stephanie Hegarty in Lagos says that many families in Chibok will be rejoicing at this latest news, but more than 100 of the girls taken have yet to be returned.

Christian pastor Enoch Mark, whose two daughters were among those kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse: "This is good news to us. We have been waiting for this day. We hope the remaining girls will soon be released." It was unclear whether his daughters had been freed.

A military source told the agency the freed girls would be flown to Borno's state capital of Maiduguri on Sunday.
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It's time to stop playing around. Go in and get the rest the girls.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Why were they freed? No food?

 

[eagle1462010]

Nigerian forces and other forces from South Africa in support have been hunting them for some time now. Why they gave them up is indeed the question. Are they losing..........did the gov't cut a deal.........who knows.

 

[waltky]

Another kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl rescued...

Another kidnapped Chibok girl rescued, says Nigerian official
Thursday 18th May, 2017 - Another young woman believed to be one of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls has been rescued, Nigeria's presidential spokesman said.

The girl was found less than two weeks after 82 others were released by their abductors in exchange for five Boko Haram commanders, Femi Adesina said. She is being brought to the capital Abuja, where the other young women are undergoing counselling and rehabilitation.

A view of one of the biggest camps for people displaced by Islamist extremists in Maiduguri, Nigeria​

Government officials in Borno state, where the girls were abducted, could not immediately corroborate the claims of the Nigeria presidency. If the girl is confirmed to have been among those kidnapped, 112 would still be missing.

Jihadists from the group aligned with Islamic State abducted the girls from their school dormitory and held most of them captive for more than three years.

Another kidnapped Chibok girl rescued, says Nigerian official - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[waltky]

82 Chibok schoolgirls reunited with families...

82 Chibok schoolgirls released by Boko Haram reunited with families
May 20, 2017 • The 82 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls captured by Boko Haram more than three years ago were reunited with their families Saturday.

Bahir Ahmad, the personal assistant to the president, announced the news on Twitter, writing it was an "emotional" welcome at the capital, Abuja. "I am really happy today, I am Christmas and New year, I am very happy and I thank God," said Godiya Joshua, whose daughter Esther was among those freed, in a report by The Telegraph. The girls were released two weeks ago. The remaining 113 are supposedly still captured. In 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped. Boko Haram released 21 girls in October and another 50 or so escaped on their own since being abducted. "We have trust in this government, definitely they will rescue the rest safely and back to us alive," said community leader Yakubu Nkeki.

Some of the 82 released Chibok girls meet Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (C) on May 7 at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. On Saturday, they were reunited with their families.​

Five commanders from the extremist group were exchanged for the girls' freedom. Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross helped negotiate their release. Some refused to return after becoming radicalized. The two groups of girls -- earlier this month and October -- were reunited with family members Saturday. Nigeria's Channel TV showed the young women laughing and embracing.

Families in the remote Chibok community had been waiting word on whether their daughters were freed. Officials told the parents that the girls would remain in government custody until they complete psychosocial and medical therapies. "The children are being rehabilitated and we believe that in due course they will be properly aligned with their families," Abidemi Aremo, an official in the Women Affairs Ministry, told the parents at a facility of the secret police in Abuja.

82 Chibok schoolgirls released by Boko Haram reunited with families

 

[anotherlife]

Why didn't they auction off all the girls at the slave markets the next day after they kidnapped them originally? What was the point to keep holding them?

 

[Correll]

Will the girls' families take them back, now that they have been "soiled"?

Or are they fucked for the rest of their lives?

 

[anotherlife]

Will the girls' families take them back, now that they have been "soiled"?

Or are they fucked for the rest of their lives?

Good question, but a liberal pig headed bully like the OP will never be able to answer it. So let me try. Not only the family of the girls is now lumbered with them, but also nobody will ever want them, and they are psychotic by now anyways. Lucky for them though, Nigeria is not yet destroyed by such western liberal evil, that would put them in a mental hospital to lose their freedom again.

 

[Vastator]

Why were they freed? No food?

Because the men can't touch the sides anymore...

 

[Correll]

Why were they freed? No food?

Because the men can't touch the sides anymore...

 

[waltky]

The Chibok girls tell their story...

Revelations from the secret diaries of the Chibok girls
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 - One of the Chibok girls freed in May tells how a diary was kept of some of their three years in captivity in Nigeria.

One of the Chibok girls freed in May has been telling journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani how a diary was kept of some of her three years in captivity with Boko Haram Islamist militants. One of the oldest in her class, Naomi Adamu was 24 when she and more than 200 mainly Christian students were taken off into Boko Haram's Sambisa forest hideout in north-eastern Nigeria in 2014, sparking global outrage. While in captivity, the girls were given exercise books for the Koranic classes they were made to attend. But some of the girls used these to keep secret diaries. When the militants found out, they were forced to burn the books. Ms Adamu managed to hide hers. She and her close friend, Sarah Samuel, now 20, and three other girls used the books to chronicle some of their experiences. The diary entries, written in passable English and poor Hausa, are undated and appear to be from their early months in captivity.

Photo of the diary​

Here are 10 of the many disclosures. Some spelling and punctuation have been altered for clarity:

1) Kidnap was not the plan

The militants who attacked the Chibok school on 14 April 2014 had come with the intention of stealing an "engine block", the diary notes. It is not clear what piece of machinery they wanted - there had been some construction work at the school a few weeks earlier, so it may have been the machine used for moulding cement blocks, which can also be used for constructing crude weapons, or they may have been after an engine block from a vehicle. But when it could not be found, they argued over what to do with the students they had gathered in groups. After considering a number of gory options, they decided to take the girls with them. "They started argument in their midst. So one small boy said that they should burn us all and they said, 'No let us take them with us to Sambisa.' Another person said, 'No let's not do that. Let's lead them... to their parent homes.' As they were in argument, then one of them said, 'No, I can't come with empty car and go back with empty car... If we take them to [Abubakar] Shekau [Boko Haram's leader], he will know what to do.'"

2) A telltale prevented escape

Some girls were loaded into the militants' vehicle at the school while the majority were made to walk at gunpoint for miles, until several trucks arrived to ferry them away. On their way to Boko Haram's forest hideout, when some students began escaping by jumping off the trucks, one of the kidnapped girls alerted their abductors - perhaps out of fear of being left alone, or a propensity to obey whoever is in authority, or the desire to have company in misery. "Then one girl in the car said, 'Driver, some girls are jumping to escape.' Then the driver opened the door of the car then searched for them with the torch but didn't find anyone. So they said to them that they should stay [in] one place, that if they jump down again, if they saw her or any they will shoot her."

3) Cruel tricks

The militants played a number of cruel tricks on the kidnapped girls, including pretending that their parents had been captured by Boko Haram. On one occasion, they separated the Christian girls from those who were Muslim and threatened to burn those who would not convert to Islam with petrol. "Then they came to us and said, 'Those who are Muslim, it is time for prayer.' After they had prayed, [they said], 'Those who are Muslim, let them be on one side and those who are Christian let them too be on one side.' "Then we saw jerrycan in the car so we thought it was petrol. Then they said, 'Who and how many of you will turn to Muslim.' So many of us, because of fear, some of us stand up and went inside... So [they said], 'The rest that remain you want to die, is that why you don't want to be Muslim? We are going to burn you...' Then they give us that jerrycan which we thought it was petrol. It is not petrol, it is water."

4) Militant anger over rape claims

 

[waltky]

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty she's free at last...

Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl rescued in Nigeria
Jan. 5, 2018 -- One of the schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by the Islamist group Boko Haram has been rescued, according to a Nigeria military official.

The Nigerian Army on Thursday announced on Twitter the girl is with troops and is safe and receiving medical attention.

The girl is one of more than 270 kidnapped by the group from a school in the town of Chibok. She was rescued more than 100 miles from Chibok in Pulka, in northern Borno state. The military identified the girl as Salomi Pagu and said she was found with a girl named Jamila Adams who is about 14, and another child for whom the military did not list a name or age. Adams and the other child were not identified as being part of the Chibok group.

Wife of the Vice President of Nigeria, Oludolapo Osinbajo (C) consoling one of the 21 released Chibok girls in Abuja, Nigeria, in October 2016. On Thursday, Nigeria military announced another schoolgirl who was abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram was rescued.​

More than 100 of the kidnapped girls are still being held by Boko Haram and their whereabouts unknown. On the day they were captured, about 50 escaped. A group of 21 were freed in October 2016 after negotiations with Boko Haram. In August, a top commander of Boko Haram confessed to leading the abduction of schoolgirls and surrendered to the Nigerian army. In September, more than 100 were reunited with their families in the capital Abuja.

Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl rescued in Nigeria