The Nigerian troops on Thursday confirmed that it has rescued two more girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, by the Boko Haram insurgents in 2014.
Theatre Commander, North-East Joint Operation Hadin Kai, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, issued the update while feeding questions from journalists at the Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri.
According to the troop Commander, the two victims Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus, regained their freedom on April 21, after men of of 114 Taskforce Battalion Bitta at Lagara, under the 21 armoured Brigade Bama attacked the terrorists.
Ali maintained that Maltha and Kibaku who are indigenes of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno, and her three-year-old baby were freed.
He stressed that while in Boko Haram camp, Hauwa was married to one Salman, a cameraman to Abubakar Shekau at Gulukos, a village in Sambisa Forest.
He said, “Salman later died in Lake Chad. Thereafter, Hauwa Maltha got married to one Mallam Muhammad in Gobara and had 2 children for him who later died due to sickness.
“Muhammad, her second husband, was also killed in Ukuba terrorist enclaves in Sambisa Forest during clashes between Boko Haram and ISWAP.
“Hauwa who was about 8 months and 2 weeks pregnant during the time of her rescue delivered a bouncing baby boy on April 28, 2023, while undergoing thorough medical examination along with her baby Fatima at 7 Division Medical Hospital and Services.”
