Army rescues Chibok schoolgirl in Borno, 10 years after abduction

Lydia Simon, another kidnapped teenager from Chibok, was freed on Wednesday by soldiers from Operation Desert Sanity III, a part of North-East Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK). 

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, precisely ten years after she and more than 200 other schoolgirls from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014, she and her three children were freed by the soldiers of the 82 Division Task Force Battalion in Gwoza LGA of Borno State.

Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region, claims that intelligence sources have shown that Lydia, the schoolgirl who was abducted and assigned serial number 68, managed to escape from Ali Ngulde's Mandara Mountain camp after spending several years in captivity. 

She turned herself in to the 82 Division Task Force Battalion at Ngoshe, in the State's Gwoza Local Government Area. 

The Chibok girl who was saved was claiming to be from Pemi Town in Chibok LGA, and she was five months pregnant.

The 10th anniversary of the 276 girls who were violently abducted by Boko Haram extremists from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, occurs on April 14, 2024. 

Although sixteen girls were eventually freed and 107 had at various points been liberated through negotiations, 57 of the girls managed to escape from their captors in the days that followed.

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