Chibok schoolgirl back with husband and baby

20 May 2016 - 08:10 By Reuters

There are hopes that the Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after more than two years of captivity by Boko Haram Islamist terrorists will be able to shed light on the fate of the 218 other abducted Chibok girls. Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, who was flown to the Nigerian capital Abjua two days after her rescue, wore a veil and multicoloured dress as security guards escorted her into the office of President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday. She was with her mother, Binta.Community leaders said she had told her relatives at the family home near Chibok that most of the girls were still being held in Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest retreat. But the 19-year-old was quoted as saying "six are already dead".Amina and her four-month-old baby were examined at an air force medical facility and were found to be stable ," said army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman.She appeared tired and thin as she held her baby, Safiya .Her purported husband, identified by the military as a "suspected Boko Haram terrorist", Mohammed Hayatu, was photographed holding the infant on a hospital bed.Usman said Hayatu was "undergoing further investigation at [the] Joint Intelligence Centre" and was being "well treated".Amina's rescue should give a boost to Buhari, a former military ruler who made crushing the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency a pillar of his presidential campaign last year.But an assertion by activist group #Bringbackourgirls that the remaining girls are under heavy Boko Haram guard in the Sambisa Forest will put pressure on him to send in rescue squads. ..

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