There is controversy surrounding the real name of one of \u00a0the Chibok girls reportedly found on Wednesday , two years after they were abducted by Boko haram
\nWhile the activist who found the girl gave her name as Amina Ali, the Nigerian army, in a confirmatory statement issued on Wednesday gave her name as Falmata Mbalala.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to confirm that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls\u2026 was among rescued persons by our troops,\u201d army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Usman gave the girl\u2019s name as Falmata Mbalala and said she was found in Baale, near the town of Damboa, which is 90 kilometres (56 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.<\/p>\n
However, a youth Leader in Chibok town said the girl was presented to the community leader as Amina Ali but when she was later taken to her school, the vice principal recognized her name in the school\u2019s register as Aisha Ali.<\/p>\n
According to Manaseh Allan, a Chibok youth leader, \u201cThe girl was found by local vigilantes in Kilakesa village on the edge of Sambisa Forest near Damboa.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was brought first to Chibok by the vigilantes who took her to the vice-principal of her school, who immediately identified her as Aisha Ali, which is her name in the school register.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was presented to community leaders as Amina Ali but her name as it appears in the school register is Aisha Ali.\u00a0\u201cIt is common for children in Chibok to be called with one name in school and another at home. \u201cShe met her parents, who recognised their daughter before she was taken to the military base in Damboa,\u201d Ayuba Alamson Chibok, a community leader in Chibok, told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer father\u2019s name is Ali and the girl\u2019s name is Amina. I know the family very well because I have worked with them, being a spokesman for the families of the Chibok girls.\u201d Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents\u2019 group, also confirmed her name and said she was 17 when she was abducted.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cShe\u2019s the daughter of my neighbour\u2026 They brought her to my house.\u201d Tsambido Hosea Abana, a Chibok community leader in the capital, Abuja, from the BringBackOurGirls pressure group, also gave an identical account. 71 0 1<\/p>\n
With agency reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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