Chibok freed schoolgirl was in Nigeria seven years after the kidnapping
According to officials, Ruth Ngladar Pogu and a man she has married in captivity recently surrendered to the Nigerian military. The couple has two children.
More than 270 girls were abducted in Chibok, north-eastern Borno state. Over 100 of them have since been freed or managed to escape. But the rest are still missing. The Borno state governor received Ruth Ngladar Pogu and her children, the officials said.
They said she would now be undergoing a rehabilitation and reintegration programme that will focus on her health and psychological wellbeing.
Of the hundreds of girls first kidnapped, some managed to escape shortly after they were seized, while about 100 were freed in exchange for other Boko Haram militants.
Mass kidnappings remain a problem in northern Nigeria, with hundreds of pupils snatched this year alone.
Nigeria’s armed forces are still fighting to end the 12-year jihadist insurgency in the country’s northeast, a conflict that has left 40,000 people dead and displaced more than two million others.
This year Mass kidnappings in Nigeria have again made international headlines as heavily armed criminal gangs have targeted schools and colleges to abduct students for ransom.
Since December, nearly 1,000 pupils have been snatched in mass abduction, mostly in the country’s northwestern and central states. Most have been released, but some are still being held after months in captivity.
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