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Nigerian vice-president to receive freed Chibok girls: spokesman

Xinhua, October 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nigerian Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo will on behalf of the government receive the Chibok school girls that were freed early Thursday by terror group Boko Haram, according to presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu.

The 21 freed girls will be handed over to Osinbajo by the secret police at the presidential palace in Abuja, the spokesman said.

Shehu said the the freed girls are now in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

President Muhammadu Buhari, who, on Wednesday embarked on a state visit to Germany, has been briefed on the development by the secret police chief.

"The release of the girls, in a limited number, is the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Boko Haram, brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government," the spokesman said, adding "the negotiations will continue."

Xinhua learned that a military helicopter picked up the girls early Thursday in a town in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno.

A total of 276 girls were seized by armed men who stormed their dormitories on the night of April 14, 2014, at the Girls Secondary School in Chibok town of Borno State.

Two years on, while some 57 girls were brave enough to escape then, 219 of them still missing.

In May, one of the girls escaped from their captors with her baby. Endit