Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday confirmed that another Chibok schoolgirl has been found, barely 12 days after the release of the 82 abducted girls by their captors.
Femi Adesina,
the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, who made
this known to State House correspondents in Abuja, said the recovery of
the girl was announced by the acting president during the Federal
Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday.
According to him, the affected girl has been brought to Abuja to join her colleagues who were rescued from captivity.
“The details are yet
to fully unravel but in terms of (if it is) true – yes, it is true. I
learnt she is already being brought to Abuja, but I have not seen her,”
he said.
The presidential aide expressed the hope that the
remaining Chibok schoolgirls and other Nigerians in captivity would soon
be rescued.
He also dismissed the assertion that members of the
Boko Haram sect had started regrouping in the Sambisa forest, saying
that the Federal Government had the capacity to confront any security
challenge arising from any part of the country.
82 girls were
recently released by their captors in exchange for five Boko Haram
(commanders) suspects held by the federal government. Twenty one others
were released in October last year and another three also regained their
freedom, on separate occasions.
