37 months after over 280 Chibok girls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, 82 more girls were freed on Saturday.
The Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram abducted the girls on the 14 Aprill 2014 at their school dormitory at Chibok.
National Daily learnt that their release was made possible after further intensive negotiations between the Islamist group and the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
It was gathered that the 82 girls who just regained their freedom are currently in Banki town in Borno state awaiting airlift to an unknown destination by the military authorities.
Sahara Reporter’s source revealed that the girls are secured in a new location they would be debriefed, undergo a psycological and medical test and then be reunited with their families.
Also the Britain and the United States on Friday said Boko Haram was preparing to kidnap foreigners in remote northeast Nigeria, which is in the grip of a food crisis caused by the conflict.
The Foreign Office in London said it had received reports the Islamist militants were “actively planning” to seize foreign workers in the Bama local government area of Borno state.
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Both said in travel advice that the affected area was “along the Banki-Kumshe axis”, which is near the border with Cameroon.
The US embassy in Abuja said in a message to its nationals that the report was “credible”. Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of women and children, including more than 200 schoolgirls from the Borno town of Chibok in 2014, which brought the conflict to world attention.
At least 20,000 people have been killed since 2009. But abductions of foreigners have been rare. There was a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the wider north from 2011 to 2013, claimed by a Boko Haram splinter group, Ansaru, which was more ideologically aligned to Al-Qaeda.
