The Federal Government has assured the parents of the 82 released Chibok girls of reuniting them with their daughters who have been in the captivity of the terrorist group, Boko Haram for over 3 years now.
This was revealed by the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan.
Alhassan said the students’ parents will meet their daughters at the presidential villa in Abuja.
Speaking with state house correspondents, Alhassan said: “Any parents that identified their children will be brought next week to see them.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the girls were released in a prisoner swap deal on Saturday after months of negotiations with the Boko Haram insurgents.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the insurgents abducted 276 girls in April 2014 at their school in Chibok, Borno State.
So far, with the latest release, 163 of the girls have been reunited with their parents, leaving about 113 still in the terrorists den.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the President’s wife, Aisha Buhari met some of the released girls on Wednesday.
The girls, dressed in colourful traditional ankara print dresses, sang songs and danced in front of the cameras.
Alhassan said the recently-released 82 would be reunited at another facility in the capital with 24 of their classmates who were released or found last year.
They will receive “psycho-social therapy” and “vocational training” to help them reintegrate into society.
The government’s goal is to have all the girls back in school at the start of the new academic year, she added, without specifying where.
“I believe from now to September, these other ones (the recently released 82 girls) would have stabilised and we will be able to take all of them back to school in September.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that thousands of women and young girls have been abducted in the eight-year insurgency, which has left at least 20,000 people dead and displaced more than 2.6 million.
However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said negotiations with Boko Haram about the release of the remaining 113 girls is in progress.
“We are looking beyond the release of these girls. We are looking a something much more comprehensive, which is the cessation of all hostilities,” he said.