First Chibok schoolgirl to be rescued from the sect who kidnapped her in Nigeria says she's UNHAPPY to be separated from the father of her baby

The first of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to be rescued from a militant camp in Nigeria said that she misses her Boko Haram husband.

Amina Ali and her four-month-old baby were rescued in May near Damboa in Borno state by soldiers and a civilian vigilante group, more than two years after being kidnapped by Islamist militants from a school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria.

Ali, who was found by the army in May along with a suspected Boko Haram militant, Mohammed Hayatu, claiming to be her husband, said she was unhappy to have been separated from the father of her four-month-old baby girl.

'I want him to know that I am still thinking about him,' Ali said, relaxing and lifting her gaze off the ground only to breastfeed her child when she was brought into the room to feed.


'Just because we got separated, that does not mean that I don't think about him,' Ali added.

After her rescue sparked a blaze of global media attention, the 21-year-old and her child have since been hidden away in a house in the capital Abuja for what the Nigerian government has called a 'restoration process'.

'I just want to go home - I don't know about school,' she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an exclusive interview.




'I will decide about school when I get back, but I have no idea when I will be going home,' Ali said, speaking softly while staring at the ground.

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