Members of the National Emergency Management Agency on May 1 arrived in Yola, Adamawa state, to receive the 293 females rescued from Sambisa forest earlier this week.
Girls and women rescued from Sambisa in April, 2015
Alhaji Sani Datti, NEMA public relations officer, confirmed the news to NAN saying that the army had informed the body that the freed ladies accompanied by the armed officers were on their way to the capital of the state.
“Presently. I will not confirm to you where exactly the rescued victims are, but according to the military sources, they are on their way to Yola.
“So we are waiting for their arrival to receive them as the army is set to hand them over to us.”
Datti added that they had prepared a camp to locate the victims.
The Nigerian military on April 28 carried out a successful operation in Sambisa forest, Boko Haram’s hideout, as a result of which 293 women and children were rescued.
The troops freed 160 more females on the next day as they prevailed over the insurgents who tried to retain nine major camps in the forest. Moreover, several sect commander were killed in the gun-battle.
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