Amina
Ali Nkeki, 19, was found with a baby by an army-backed vigilante group on
Tuesday in the huge Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.
She
was one of 219 pupils missing since being abducted from a secondary school in
the town of Chibok in April 2014.
Mr
Buhari said he was delighted she was back and could resume her education.
"But my feelings
are tinged with deep sadness at the horrors the young girl has had to go
through at such an early stage in her life," he said in a statement published on Facebook.
"Although
we cannot do anything to reverse the horrors of her past, federal government
can and will do everything possible to ensure that the rest of her life takes a
completely different course.
"Amina
will receive the best care that the Nigerian government can afford. We will
ensure that she gets the best medical, psychological, emotional and whatever
other care she requires to make a full recovery and be reintegrated fully into
society."
Continuation
of her education "will definitely be a priority of the federal
government", the president said.
After
her escape from Boko Haram, Ms Nkeki had an emotional reunion with her mother.
On
Wednesday the 19 year old and her four-month-old baby were flown by the
Nigerian Air Force to Maiduguri - the capital of Borno state - before going on
to Abuja the following day by presidential jet.
She
had been held captive for more than two years by militants fighting to
establish an Islamic state.
Ms
Nkeki was reportedly recognised by a fighter of the civilian Joint Task Force
(JTF), who was on patrol as part of a vigilante group set up to fight Boko
Haram.
She
was with a suspected Boko Haram fighter who is now in the Nigerian military's
custody. Named as Mohammed Hayatu, he said he was Ms Nkeki's husband.
Hosea Abana Tsambido,
the chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, told the BBC that Ms Nkeki had
been found while searching for firewood in the forest area surrounding the Boko
Haram settlement.
"She
was saying… all the Chibok girls are still there in the Sambisa except six of
them that have already died."
During
the April 2014 attack, Boko Haram gunmen arrived in Chibok at night and raided
the school dormitories, loading 276 girls on to trucks.
More
than 50 managed to escape within hours, mostly by jumping off the lorries and
running off into roadside bushes.
A
video broadcast by CNN in April this year appeared to show some of the
kidnapped schoolgirls alive.
Fifteen
girls in black robes were pictured. They said they were being treated well but
wanted to be with their families.
The
video was allegedly shot on Christmas Day 2015 and some of the girls were
identified by their parents.
The Chibok
schoolgirls, many of whom are Christian, had previously not been seen since May
2014, when Boko Haram released a video of about 130 of them gathered together reciting the Koran.
The
abduction led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which was supported by US
First Lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
Executive director
Evon Idahosa told the BBC World Service's
Newsday programme that
there was now "no excuse" for the Nigerian government not to step up
efforts to free the remaining captives.
"They
[the families] are excited but they have also been disappointed so much in the
past, particularly during the Jonathan administration [from 2010-2015]."
source:bbc.com
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