Nigerian Army rescues another Chibok girl 10 years after her abduction

Troops of Operation Desert Sanity III, North East Operation Hadin Kai have rescued another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon, ten years after her abduction. 

April 14, 2024, marks the 10th anniversary of the violent abduction of 276 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents.

Lydia was rescued along with her three children by the troops of 82 Division Task Force Battalion in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. 

Intelligence Sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region, that Lydia who was on serial number 68 among the abducted missing girls escaped from the camp of Ali Ngulde in Mandara Mountain where she was held in captivity for several years.

She surrendered to troops of 82 Division Task Force Battalion at Ngoshe in Gwoza LGA. 

The rescued Chibok girl is five months pregnant and claimed she was from Pemi Town in Chibok.