BEVERLY HILLS, May 11, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has revealed that the 82 Chibok schoolgirls who were recently released by Boko Haram insurgents will be reunited with their parents next week.
The 82 girls have been staying at the facility of the Department of State Services (DSS) on the outskirts of the city since their release in a prisoner swap deal on Saturday after months of negotiations.
According to the Minister for Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, the parents of the girls will travel from Borno state to meet their daughters in the capital, Abuja.
“Any parent that identified their children will be brought next week to see them,” she told pressmen at the staff quarters of the DSS.
“They will receive psycho-social therapy and vocational training to help them reintegrate into society but they are free to come and go from the centre.
“The government’s goal is to have all the girls back in school at the start of the new academic year.
“I believe from now to September, these recently released 82 girls would have stabilised and we will be able to take all of them back to school in September.”
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