Sarah Yaga was just 17 when she was kidnapped from her school.
She also said that the government made provision for skill acquisition for the girls to enable them earn a decent living and thanked President Buhari for his serious commitment towards the recovery of the girls.
The Nigerian government announced that 82 of the girls who had been taken from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, had been released in exchange for handing over six suspected militants to Boko Haram.
He promised to continue to work for the release of the remaining girls.
"I believe in God and I trust in God that one day they will be released", Rebecca Yaga said and her long held belief appears to have paid as she said "I see now they begin their coming out now".
"The Nigerian army is happy with the safe return of the girls".
Many of the Chibok girls are Christian but were photographed in Muslim garb by their captors, and some were forced to take militants as husbands and bear their children.
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Hosea Abana, Chibok community leader in Abuja, speaks during an interview in Abuja, Nigeria.
He said, "The large number of persons present at this rally today is proof that we are all elated at the joy of freedom for the latest batch of Chibok Girls to be freed from captivity". The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to reporters on the matter. And activists are still demanding that Boko Haram be routed.
Chibok schoolgirls, recently freed from Nigeria extremist captivity, are photographed in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday May 8, 2017.
Reports of this weekend's release range from 52-82, but The New York Times reports that even with this release, over 100 girls remain under control of Boko Haram.
But Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promises to "personally supervise" returning the girls to a sense of well-being. Earlier in May, the group released 82 girls in exchange for prisoners following negotiations that involved also the Swiss government. 56 of your colleagues who escaped from abduction are in their final year in two worldwide private schools.
Girls who escaped soon afterwards claimed some classmates had died from illness while others did not want to come home because they had been radicalised by the insurgents. Numerous girls were brainwashed while in captivity.
Though Boko Haram has abducted thousands of people during its eight-year insurgency that has spilled across Nigeria's borders, the Chibok mass kidnapping horrified the world and brought the extremist group worldwide attention. Those girls are in a government rehabilitation camp where they rarely see their families. They have been in government care for medical attention, trauma counseling and rehabilitation.
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