– The girls hail from Gofai area of Dutse metropolis in Jigawa state
– They were said to have been abducted with their mother while on a visit to Maiduguri in Borno state
A fourteen-year-old girl identified as Fatimah and Zainab, an eight-year-old girl on Thursday, October 20, returned home after spending two years in captivity in Sambisa forest, Daily Trust reports.
The two girls who hailed from Gofai area of Dutse metropolis were said to have been abducted with their mother while on a visit to Maiduguri in Borno state.
The victims were entrapped when they boarded a vehicle belonging to members of Boko Haram in Maiduguri with the girls forcefully separated from their mother.
At the time of filing this report the whereabouts of the mother is unknown.
Ladi Dansure, the state commissioner for women affairs, speaking to journalists, confirmed the return of the girls to Jigawa state.
The state commissioner said the victims who managed to escape were rescued by soldiers in Damaturu, Yobe state who handed them to the Yobe state Emmergency Management Agency.
She said the girls were currently in the hospital undergoing medical examination before they would be finally reunited with their family.
Meanwhile, the defence headquarters says the Nigerian Army would continue the bombing of Boko Haram strong hold, Sambisa forest, in spite of the recent rescuing of 21 abducted the Chibok school girls and on-going negotiations to secure the freedom of the remaining girls.
Acting director for defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, who disclosed this in Abuja said the military would rely on precision aerial armaments in the operations to ensure that there was no collateral damage.
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