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Susan Ishaya, one of the 276 Government Secondary School girls abducted in Chibok, Borno State in April by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamist sect, was on Sunday, September 21 set free by her captors, BusinessDay can authoritatively report.
Enoch Mark, the chairman, Association of
Abducted Chibok Girls’ Parents, told BusinessDay on telephone that the
teenage girl who, he said, was at the moment traumatized arrived Chibok
late Sunday having spent four days between the place she was set free
and Chibok.
He said: “I have been instructed to take
her to Adamawa police command in Yola where she would be medically
taken care of. She is traumatized at the moment because her speech is
not coordinated.
As I speak to you now, I am on my way to Adamawa. When
she is stabilized I will encourage her to speak to you. The young lady
with me here should not be up to 20 years”, he said.
Enoch, with the daughters still at the
mercy of the Islamist sect, said it was the insurgents that dropped the
girl off at the point where they asked her to find her way and that she
wondered round many hamlets for four days before she was able to locate
Chibok.
“Let me be clear to you, the military
has nothing to do whatsoever about her release. It was the insurgents
who decided to show her mercy, lest anybody takes the glory of her
freedom. Whatever the military might be doing now is rather too late.
The damage has been done already. I shed tears when I saw her.
A girl of
less than 20 has suddenly turned old woman. We pray others including my
two daughters would be set free soon. By the time she is fully rested
we should be able to get some information from her”, he said.
The Adamawa police command spokesperson,
Othman Abubakar, did not answer calls to his cell phone or reply to
text message sent him in an attempt to confirm if he was aware of the
development.
In order to confirm the news. I visited the Twitter page of the Converner of #Bringbackourgirls campaign, Dr Oby Ezekwesili
She did indeed confirm the news and below is what she tweeted
After the emotional upheaval of yesterday's dashed hope, today came with the FACTUAL RETURN of ONE of OUR 219 #ChibokGirls. She's in trauma.
OUR 1 #ChibokGirl, miraculously found in a bush by locals & returned today is confirmed by ChibokParents with her in Yola. INCREDIBLE!
It is
hard to comprehend the return of Susan who is yet incoherent. The locals
that found her took her to Mubi Police & now moved to Yola.
The
eternal optimist that I am makes me see the return of Susan as a GOOD
SIGN for the rest of our 219 ChibokDaughters. They SHALL RETURN!!
One hopes that Our Security/Military would approach Susan's return in a way that helps us learn more in the next couple of days.
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