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After eight years she was forcefully removed from her school hostel, alongside others at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, one of the girls narrated how she escaped from the terrorists’ camp in the Sambisa forest area of the state. 

The insurgents had whisked away over 250 girls who were writing their exams at the time.

Having fled the terrorists’ enclave in Borno State, she was eventually discovered by troops of the Nigerian Army on June 29.

Two days after, she addressed journalists where she narrated her ordeal at the hands of the terrorists.

The victim, who gave her name as Ruth Bitrus, said she had to trek for three days in the Sambisa Forest before help came to her by troops of the 21 Armoured Brigade Bama. 

“My name is Ruth Bitrus, I escaped from the Sambisa Forest. 

“I am one of the students kidnapped from GGSS Chibok in April 2014. We were 203 that were kidnapped. 

“The rest of us are still in Sambisa with our captors,” she spoke in the Hausa language.

According to Ruth, her husband was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) while he was trying to plant a bomb. 

“The father of my child died two years ago in Rabul Sani village where he went to plant a bomb at the military formation and it exploded with him before he could plant it.”

The distraught mother explained that she took some food with her which she used in feeding the child within the three-day period. 

Bitrus’ rescue came two weeks after troops rescued two other escaping Chibok schoolgirls – Mary Dauda and Hauwa Joseph. 

They had escaped from Gazuwa camp, located about nine kilometers to Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. 

Of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the terrorists in 2014, more than 100 of them are still unaccounted for eight years after their kidnap.