Yusuf Idris, a spokesman for the regional governor Bello Matawalle, said Tuesday that all 279 girls had been safely returned and accounted for.
The girls arrived early Tuesday at the Zamfara government’s state house, where they were dressed in identical pastel hijabs.
Idris said they were in a “good condition,” although some of them had open sores on their feet and were given medical treatment.
Some of the girls recounted their ordeal at the hands of the kidnappers. “Most of us got injured on our feet and we could not continue trekking, so they (their captors) said they will shoot anybody who did not continue to walk,” Umma Abubakar told reporters gathered at the state house.
“We walked across a river and they hid us and let us sleep under shrubs in a forest.”
Officials had originally said 317 students were abducted from the Government Girls…