‘Freed Chibok girl meets family’ – Confirmed

The Chibok girl freed from Boko Haram captivity after more than two years has been briefly reunited with her family, community leader  Ayuba Alamson Chibok has told AFP news agency.

Soldiers brought Amina Ali Nkek to Mbalala town, near Chibok, and took her away after her family confirmed her identity, he said. 

She was 17 when abducted. 

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Nigerian university don and women’s rights activist Hauwa Abdu had earlier told the BBC Abuja bureau that one of the abducted Chibok girls has been found. 

Amina Nkek was found last night by a vigilante group after a fight with suspected Boko Haram militants, she added. 

Ms Abdu told the BBC she got her information from a vigilante who knew the girl and identified her.  

The girl is now apparently with the Nigerian military in Dambuwa town in north-eastern Borno state and will be transferred to Maiduguri, the state capital, Ms Abdu added.  

This will be the first Chobok girl to be found since the 2014 abductions. 

Nigerian activists say the rescued Chibok girl was from the north-eastern town of Mbalala. 

She had gone to nearby Chibok to do her school examinations when she was among more than 200 girls abducted by gunmen from militant Islamist group Boko Haram in April 2014, in a raid which caused global outrage. 

The BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty visited Mbalala last month, to mark the second anniversary of the abductions. 

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