'We have been married for eight years,' Ms Grema, who escaped with her child, had said. 'I first came out of the forest and then he followed me.'
"We have been married for eight years," Ms Grema, who escaped with her child, had said."I first came out of the forest and then he followed me."
The terrorists put the girls in trucks and headed for Sambisa forest, but 57 girls were lucky to jump off the trucks. One of them laterTheir abduction sparked local and international outrage, a scenario that birthed a global movement, #BringBackOurGirls. "We have been married for eight years," Grema, who escaped with her child, had said."I first came out of the forest and then he followed me. There in the bush, we had no relatives, no brother, no sister, that is why we decided to come out."The deradicalisation programme by the Borno State Government provides a window for the terrorists to be reintegrated back into society. More than 160,000 ex-terrorists have taken advantage of the amnesty.
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