After seven year, kidnapped Chibok girl reunites with family
A girl abducted by Boko Haram from the Nigerian town of Chibok seven years ago has been reunited with her parents, raising hopes that others still being held will be found, the governor of Borno State announced on 7 August.
Governor Babagana Zulum said the girl, called Ruth Ngladar Pogu, surrendered to the military ten days earlier along with someone she said she married during her captivity. Officials had used the intervening time to contact Ruth’s parents and other Chibok families.
Ruth will receive psychological medical care as part of a government rehabilitation programme, added the governor.
On 14 April 2014 Islamist extremists abducted 276 girls, mostly Christian, from a secondary school in Chibok, northeast Nigeria. Around 160 of the girls have subsequently escaped, been rescued or released. Girls reported being whipped by their captors to force them into marriage, while a group of Christian girls experienced a mock execution for refusing to convert to Islam.
Source: Barnabas Fund
