100+ Chibok Girls Still Missing 7 Years After Boko Haram Kidnapping
14 Apr 2021
More than 100 schoolgirls abducted by the Nigerian Islamic terror group Boko Haram in April 2014 remain missing, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a statement commemorating the seventh anniversary of the kidnapping in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.
“Today marks seven years since 279 schoolgirls were abducted by the armed group Boko Haram in Chibok,” the human rights organization wrote on April 14. “Although most escaped or were later released, more than 100 girls remain in captivity.”
The exact number of schoolgirls still missing remains unclear. Nigeria’s
Sahara Reporters news site on Tuesday wrote that 112 Chibok girls remain unaccounted for, while
With smiles all over her face, Amina Ali is now finding fulfilment as she is back in school. Her education was almost stolen when on April 14, 2014, Boko Haram stormed Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno state, and abducted her and 218 other schoolgirls. Most of them were preparing for their secondary school final examinations.
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Amina Ali’s goal is to become a lawyer
She does not want to talk about the experience that evening when TheCable visited her in Mbalala, her home, a few kilometres away from Chibok, where she is spending the holiday. It was a hell she had survived, being one of the 103 that have so far been rescued, in the last seven years. In fact, Ali will be the first of the girls to be rescued. After two years in Boko Haram’s den, Ali was found around Kulakaisa area on the fringes of Sambisa forest by vigilantes from Chibok on patrol in May, 2016.
Those still alive said they were optimistic their daughters were alive and called on the federal government to rescue them.
It is exactly seven years today (Wednesday) when Boko Haram terrorists stormed GGSS Chibok on April 14, 2014, forced 276 girls into a truck and moved towards the Sambisa Forest.
While some of the girls hung unto tree branches on the way to the forest and thereafter found their ways back home, others were not that lucky.
However, after the escape of a few and the release of over 100 through negotiations over time, most of the over 107 of the Chibok girls that have been reunited with their families are still struggling to be on their feet.
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