After nine years in captivity, two of the Chibok secondary school girls who were kidnapped by terrorists are believed to have escaped from their captors in the Sambisa Forest.
Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus were identified as the girls who escaped.
The girls reportedly escaped from Sambisa forest on Sunday as a result of intense military operations, according to a security source cited by Daily Trust.
“One is from Chibok and the other one from Dzilang village,” the source said.
With the two most recent escapees, only 96 Chibok schoolgirls are still being held captive.
Recall that on April 14, 2014, the deadly Boko Haram terrorist group abducted several girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.
98 Chibok girls are still being held captive as of last week, according to Colonel Obinna Ezuipke, head of the Joint Military Task Force’s Intelligence Unit for Operation Hadinkai.
Ezuipke said, “Out of the 276 abducted Chibok girls, 57 girls escaped in 2014 while 107 girls were released in 2018. Three girls were recovered in 2019, two in 2021 and 9 were rescued in 2022, bringing the total of 178 girls out of captivity and 98 remaining in Boko Haram captivity.”
Ada Peter
