It was an emotional moment after more than three years, the newly-released 82 Chibok girls reunite with their parents and their 23 schoolmates Saturday in Abuja.
The Parents arrived Abuja Saturday morning and were driven to where the girls were being rehabilitated on behalf of the federal Government by the Ministry of Women Affairs.
The girls were among the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted from their boarding school by the Boko Haram terrorists in 2014.
They were granted freedom as part of a prisoner exchange deal between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government.
Twenty-one others were freed in October, while several more girls have either been let go individually or escaped.
More than 100 of the girls are still being held, though the government has said it hopes to negotiate their release.
Boko Haram has killed thousands in its eight-year terrorist campaign to turn northern Nigeria into a staunch Islamic state.
Nigerian officials say they believe the militants kidnapped the girls to intimidate civilians against resistance.
Many of the girls were forced to marry their terrorist captors and have had children with them. Some have been radicalized and refuse to return, while it is feared others have been used in suicide bombings.
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