Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday received Ruth Ngladar, one of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted seven years ago at a
Boko Haram had attacked the school towards midnight on April 14, 2014 and abducted the schoolgirls.
Ruth, alongside a terrorist, who she was said to have married during her captivity, surrendered themselves to the Nigerian troopa on July 28, 2021 at a location in Bama.Under Zulum’s supervision, security and government officials kept the development secret and used the last 10 days to contact her parents and association of parents of the missing schoolgirls in order to ascertain her identity.
Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said the governor received the Chibok girl at the Government House, in the presence of her overwhelmed parents who reunited with her. An excited Governor Zulum said reuniting with Ruth was a boost to keeping the hopes of parents, other family members and the Borno State alive in the optimism that all other still in captivity, will be safely found and in good health.
Gusau said Ruth and her parents, will undertake a rehabilitation and reintegration programme that will focus on her health, psychosocial wellbeing and her chosen path to a productive future, all of which will be determined by her.
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