Chibok Girl Refused to be Free from the Captivity of Boko Haram
- By IBTN News Bureau --
- 10 May 2017
The President of Nigeria has said that Chibok girl, one of the girls who kidnapped by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, has refused to free herself.
They say that the girl has chosen to stay with her husband instead of being free. This is one of the girls released from Captivity of Boko Haram on Saturday.
Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari's spokesman Garba Shehu told local TV channels that the girl said, "I am happy where I am. I've got a husband. "
Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls three years ago from Nigeria's northeast. Boko Haram had kidnapped many more during the uprising in this area.
The government had agreed that they would release some of the Boko Haram members in exchange for them. But there is no information about how many members are to be left.
It is believed that more than a hundred girls are still in captivity of extremists.
There are reports that girls who had been abducted, some of them married to Boko Haram fighters and now their children are also there.
Parents of Chibok girls are gradually being told about their daughters.
Government has posted the names of girls on Twitter, but social media access in Chibok is not to all people.
Garba Shehu says that girls are being identified so that they can be meet with their families at the earliest.
Ayesha Yasufu, convener of the Bringbackourgirls campaign, told the news agency AFP that she is engaged in joining these girls with their parents.
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