The Minister
of Women Affairs, Jummai Alhassan, yesterday refuted the allegation that one of
the rescued Chibok girls had escaped. This followed an unconfirmed report
that
the girl escaped to join her Boko Haram ‘husband’ in the Sambisa Forest in
Borno State.
Alhassan, in
a reply to a text message by The Guardian on Saturday said: “No, it is not
true. The girls are all in the shelter, hale, hearty and enjoying their
programme. Thanks.”
The rescued
girls are reportedly camped at an Abuja rehabilitation shelter. The Federal
Government had disclosed that the girls would be enrolled in a school in
September to continue their education for a period of four months.
However, a
source at Chibok town, who did not want his name to be mentioned, said the girl
who sneaked to rejoin her husband was not among the rescued school girls.
He said the
girl, called Aisha, was allegedly released to her family from the Borno State
deradicalisation centre. According to him, the 19-year old girl was alleged to
be married to a factional leader of the Boko Haram, Mamman Nur.
Guardian reported that, Aisha was
said to have fled with her child from her Maiduguri residence to join the said
husband in the forest. The source added that the insinuation that she had fled
into the forest was driven by the inability to reach her through her mobile
phone.
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