CHIBOK GIRLS: "We Stayed For 40 Days In The Bush Without Food"

Emotions ran high on Sunday in Abuja when parents of the 21 Chibok girls , who were released by Boko Haram militants on Thursday, reunited with their parents at a thanksgiving service.
Parents and a few invited guests shed tears as the few lucky girls, who were among the over 200 schoolgirls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, kidnapped on April 14, 2014, locked themselves in warm embrace.

The thanksgiving service held at the Department of State Services health facility, located along the Airport Road, Abuja, to mark the release of the girls.
The guests and the parents cried the more when the 21 girls claimed that they were not fed for "one month and 10 days'' while they were in the bush.
Gloria Dame, one of the rescued girls, who spoke while giving testimony on behalf of her colleagues, said they survived through divine intervention.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, and Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya
Jummai Alhassan, who attended the service, wiped their faces several times while listening to Gloria.
The girl, who spoke in Hausa language, said, "I did not know that a day like this will come that we will be dancing and giving thanks to God among people.
"For one month and 10 days, we stayed without food. I narrowly escaped a bomb blast in the forest.
"We are praying to God to touch the heart of Boko Haram to repent and we are calling on Nigerians to pray and fast for the release of our remaining ones in captivity."

Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Mohammed, has appealed to commentators and analysts to refrain from making statements that could jeopardise the release of the remaining Chibok girls, who were still in captivity.
The minister made the appeal on Sunday in Abuja at the thanksgiving service.
"There are many reckless analysts and commentators, who are not helping the situation. We still have many of our children in captivity.
Therefore, we have to be careful with the kind ofcomments that we make. We must not make
comments that will make the release of these girls
difficult or impossible," he said.
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