TheCable

Sesugh Akume, spokesperson of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), says the group looks forward to the release of the remaining 113 Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity.

The BBOG spokesperson said this while lauding the federal government for facilitating the rescue 82 Chibok girls.

Speaking with NAN on Sunday, Akume said the parents of the freed girls were ecstatic after reuniting with their daughters on Saturday.

He described the reunion as a great milestone.

“The parents arrived at 6 a.m on Saturday. We spoke with some on the phone. They are ecstatic,” he said

“The joy is unexplainable. We give kudos to the Federal Government for finally facilitating the meeting. We look forward to our 113 coming back and reuniting with their families.

He appealed to the government that the parents still awaiting their daughters’ return should not be neglected.

Meanwhile, Adamu Joshua, father of one of the rescued Chibok girls, said as long as the girls have been rescued, he was no longer angry with the Boko Haram insurgents.

He prayed that those parents who were still awaiting the return of their daughters would experience the same joy within him.

“We pray that the parents whose daughters are yet to released experience the kind of joy that we are experiencing right now. In fact, we, parents from Chibok, are no longer angry with what Boko Haram did, as long as our daughters have been released. We are not going to open our mouth and insult anybody. We are grateful to President Buhari; we are very happy,” Vanguard quoted him saying.

“Lydia was my only daughter but, in her absence, God blessed me with another daughter. Now I have five boys and two daughters with the return of Lydia. I am so happy. If I  have feathers, I would fly high. We thank God for everything.

“My daughter, Lydia, will be meeting her sister for the first time. My wife lost so much weight because she was always thinking of her daughter. She did not suspect that Lydia would ever return to us.”