The National Chairman of Chibok Community Development Association, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, has revealed that the abducted ‘Chibok girl’ released on Wednesday is “pregnant and mentally ill”. According to Bitrus, "I was speaking Kibaku to her, but she did not respond; she was incoherent. She may be having mental issues as a result of trauma.
 
"When she was picked up, she was taken to a clinic, not a standard hospital, and tests were carried out on her. From the tests, it was said she is pregnant, but that is still in the speculative domain because a qualified medical doctor has not confirmed that she is pregnant.

"However, we are still trying to establish if really she is from Chibok, because from our sources, the last name of the released girl does not tally with the surname of the person bearing the first name of the released girl captured in our records and whose father is a carpenter at Chibok. So, we are still trying to work out every detail."

The abandoned girl allegedly told the Mararaban Mubi police the schoolgirls were held at the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, where each of them live in a separate hut with one of the militants. The girls do not get see each other, and so none of them was sure about the condition of their colleagues, she said. She also said they suffered abuse in the hands of their captors. The girl told the police she missed her menstrual period four months ago, meaning she is likely to be pregnant for as many months.


Five days ago, the girl said, she was asked to enter a Starlet car along with three other abducted girls. They were then driven to an unknown location where she alone was dumped and told that she was free to go. The other girls were driven away. It was from there that she trekked for three days until she reached that village near Mararaban Mubi.