Nigerian Army Rescues Another Chibok Schoolgirl With 4-Year-Old Child, Three Others

Troops of Sector One, Operation Hadin Kai, have rescued another Chibok schoolgirl in the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

Aisha Grema, the Chibok girl, and her 4-year-old child were rescued together on Friday.

In April 2014, 276 female students, predominantly Christians, between the ages of 16 and 18, were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.

Grema was listed as the eleventh student taken from Chibok who was still being held captive as of 2021.

The Nigerian Army said the victim and her kid were saved by soldiers from the 21 Special Armoured Brigade, Sector 1, Operation Hadin Kai at Bama LGA, Borno, in a statement posted on its Facebook page on Saturday.

According to the statement, three other girls — Mwanret Daspan (29), Claris Fidel (22), a national of Chad, and Hauwa (12) — were rescued by troops of 242 battalion, Sector 3, Operation Hadin Kai, at Mongonu LGA of Borno State.

Salamatu Yahaya, President of the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA), donated relief materials and financial support to the rescued girls at the Maimalari Military Cantonment, Maiduguri.

She commended the troops for their efforts and said the rescued persons will be supported by the military and the Borno government to reunite them with their families.

Over 100 girls have so far been rescued in the last seven years.