The Department of State Services (DSS) will hand over the
82 rescued Chibok schoolgirls to the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs
and Social Development, today, May 30th, for counseling and
rehabilitation.
The 82 girls were freed earlier this month in exchange for
an unspecified number of detained Boko Haram militants after series of
negotiation with the federal government.
Information from the Federal Ministry of Information and
Culture, said the handing-over ceremony will take place at the National
Women Development Centre, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator
Aisha Jummai Alhassan, had, during the reunion for the girls and their
parents at the DSS Clinic, in Abuja on May 20, 2017, disclosed that a
group of experts had been assembled to give the girls psycho-social
support as well as address their medical needs.
The minister, who was represented by Director, Planning,
Research and Statistics in the ministry, Mrs. Abidemi Aremo, also
disclosed that the 24 others rescued last year were equally undergoing
psycho-social counselling and remedial programme preparatory to their
enrolment in school in September, this year.
“The children are being rehabilitated and we believe that
in due course they will be properly aligned with their families.
Intensive medical attention is being administered and as soon as they
are done, they will be enrolled into a remedial programme,"
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