Hopes were renewed on Thursday when fourteen years old girl identified as Fatimah and Zainab, an eight years old girl on Thursday, October 20, returned home after spending two years in captivity in Sambisa forest.

According to CEOAFRICA’s source: Naija .com,The two girls who hailed from Gofai area of Dutse metropolis were said to have been abducted with their mother while on a visit to Maiduguri in Borno state.

The victims were entrapped when they boarded a vehicle belonging to members of Boko Haram in Maiduguri with the girls forcefully separated from their mother. At the time of filing this report the whereabouts of the mother is unknown.

 Ladi Dansure, the state commissioner for women affairs, speaking to journalists, confirmed the return of the girls to Jigawa state. The state commissioner said the victims who managed to escape were rescued by soldiers in Damaturu, Yobe state who handed them to the Yobe state Emergency Management Agency.She said the girls were currently in the hospital undergoing medical examination before they would be finally reunited with their family.

Meanwhile, the defence headquarters says the Nigerian Army would not relent in the bombing of Boko Haram’s hideout, Sambisa forest, in spite of the recent freedom of 21 abducted Chibok school girls in which negotiations are ongoing for others freedom.