The 82 Chibok school girls who recently got their freedom after being kept in captivity by the Boko Haram terrorists some three years ago finally reunited with their families on Saturday in Abuja, Nigeria, reports VOA.
The girls were freed after the government of Nigeria brokered a deal with the terrorists in a prisoner exchange agreement that saw the 82 from the 276 girls that were captured from their boarding school in north east Nigeria in 2014 released.
21 other girls were freed in October, while several more girls have either been let go individually or escaped. Over 100 school girls are still in captivity. The Nigerian government has said that it is working towards getting the rest of the girls.
“Many of the girls were forced to marry their terrorist captors and have had children with them. Some have been radicalized and refuse to return, while it is feared others have been used in suicide bombings,” says the report by VOA.
Of the 2.3 million people displaced by Boko Hrama violence since May 2013, at least 250,000 have left Nigeria and fled into Cameroon, Chad or Niger, while over 6,600 in believed to have died in 2014.
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