The Nigerian Army announced on Thursday that its forces have rescued two of the girls kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok by Boko Haram in 2014.
for both Nigeria and governments around the world, including the Obama administration in the United States, which displayed shocking impotence in the face of an outrageous mass kidnapping.of the kidnapping, in which 276 girls were taken from the school by the jihadis of Boko Haram, a group that later swore allegiance to the Islamic State. Witnesses, survivors, and escapees said the girls were brutally raped, “married” off to Boko Haram fighters, and forced to witness and even commit atrocities.
Fatima Abdu, 14; Zahra Bukar, 13; Fatima Bukar, 13; and Yagana Mustapha, 15, four schoolgirls of Government Girls Technical College, who escaped from a Boko Haram attack, sit at the home of a schoolmate at Dapchi town in northern Nigerian on February 28, 2018. Nigeria’s government on March 1 said it had set up a committee to establish how Boko Haram jihadists managed to kidnap 110 girls from their school in the country’s remote northeast.
The Nigerian government eventually paid some $3.3 million in ransom to Boko Haram to recover 103 of the victims. Some others escaped, and over the past few years the Nigerian military claims to have rescued a few of the remaining 96 captives in raids.a press conference on Thursday that another such rescue was conducted on April 21, recovering Chibok girls Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus, both now 26 years old.
Maltha also bore two children for her first “husband,” but said they died of illness. Both of her husbands were killed, the second one during a battle between Boko Haram and its spinoff rival, the Islamic State West Africa Province .a press conference on Friday that she actually had a third Boko Haram “husband,” who “went away” and was accused of becoming an “infidel” by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. She said Shekau performed all three of her involuntary marriages.
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