A medical doctor, Danladi Idriss, has said that Amina Ali Nkeki, the first of the Chibok girls to be rescued from the hands of the Boko Haram is not pregnant as erroneously reported.

 

Amina, now a nursing mother, was found by the youth vigilantes, Tuesday, in Baale village, along the fringes of the Sambisa forest. Earlier reports suggested that she was pregnant.

 

"I never said the girl is pregnant because I'm not the one who checked her after she was rescued. I did not see Amina personally. The only people who can give information about her state of health are the doctors who attended to her at the military facility in Maiduguri," said Dr Idriss, who is also from Chibok, and had treated traumatized parents of the girls in the past.

 

A military source at the 3 Armoured Division in Maiduguri, also told our correspondent that Amina, who is nursing a four-month old daughter, is not pregnant.

 

Meanwhile, the Borno Elders Forum said God has vindicated them after the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan closed its eyes when they were crying over their missing daughters.

 

Spokesman of the forum, Dr Bulama Mali Gubio, who spoke to our correspondent on phone, said "When we said these girls were in the Sambisa forest, some people in the previous government scolded us, saying we should go and rescue them. We are pleased that two of them have been found which clearly shows that the rest are still alive."

 

By Hamza Idris

Daily Trust