Hopes for other missing Chibok students as rescued schoolgirl meets Nigerian president
Amina Nkeki in the office of Borno state governor Kashim Shettima Picture: Nigerian Army
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A Nigerian schoolgirl听rescued after over two years of captivity with Boko Haram听militants met President Muhammadu Buhari today 国产视频 amid hopes听she can shed light on the fate of 218 other abducted Chibok听girls.
Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, who was flown in from the northeast听regional capital Maiduguri two days after her rescue, wore a听veil and multi-coloured dress as security guards escorted her听into Buhari国产视频檚 office in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
She was accompanied by her mother Binta and Nigeria国产视频檚听Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser.
Soldiers working with a civilian vigilante group found Amina two days ago near Damboa, south of Maiduguri. Officials confirmed听she was one of 219 girls abducted from the government school in听Chibok in April 2014.
She was found with her four-month-old baby while a听国产视频渟uspected Boko Haram terrorist国产视频 called Mohammed Hayatu, who听said he was Amina国产视频檚 husband, was also detained, the army said.
Pictures released by the Nigerian military today听showed the clean-shaven man in a white shirt and cream slacks听sitting beside Amina on a hospital bed cradling the infant in听his arms.
Amina国产视频檚 rescue should give a boost to Buhari, a former听military ruler who made crushing the Boko Haram Islamist听insurgency a pillar of his presidential campaign in 2015.
However, an assertion from activist group #BringBackOurGirls听that the remining abductees were under heavy Boko Haram guard in听the Sambisa Forest, the jihadists国产视频 final stronghold, will put听pressure on him to send in rescue squads.
Boko Haram captured 276 girls in their night-time raid on听Chibok, one of the most audacious assaults of a seven-year-old听insurgency to set up an Islamic state in the north.
A #BringBackOurGirls protest in the Nigerian capital Abuja
More than 15,000 people have been killed and two million听displaced in Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Some girls escaped in the melee but parents of the remaining听219 accused then-President Goodluck Jonathan of not doing enough听to find their daughters, whose disappearance led to a global听campaign #BringBackOurGirls.
Amina国产视频檚 mother last year spoke of her daughter国产视频檚 fear of听Boko Haram but of her joy at attending school and doing well at听her studies.
She told the Murtala Muhammed Foundation, a Nigerian听non-profit organisation researching a book on the Chibok girls,听that she was not sure of the age of Amina, the youngest of her听13 children although only three survived their early years.
国产视频淪he always sewed her own clothes,国产视频 her mother said in the听interview released to the Thomson Reuters Foundation by Aisha听Oyebode of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation.
Binta said Amina国产视频檚 father died some months after his听daughter was abducted.
国产视频淎fter Amina was kidnapped, only two (of our children) are听left alive,国产视频 she said, adding her son and daughter live in听Lagos.
She said she constantly thought of her lost daughter, who听had always helped her around the house.
国产视频(My son) said I should take it easy and stop crying,国产视频 she听told the Foundation. 国产视频淗e reminded me that I am not the onlyparent who lost a child.国产视频
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