African press review 20 May 2016

President Buhari promises best care possible for rescued Chibok girl but Nigerian press vents it fury after being shut out of the big event.

DR

 We start with an outburst of frustration in Friday's Nigerian papers after they were allegedly excluded from the lists of privileged media channels allowed to cover the emotional State House meeting between the rescued Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki and President Muhammadu Buhari.

Vanguard

According to the paper photojournalists struggled in vain, to catch a glimpse of the girl’s heavily veiled face as presidential guards formed a human shield around her, after she arrived the Presidential Villa Thursday afternoon, accompanied by her mother carrying her baby, her brother and the Governor of Borno State.

Ill feelings aside, Vanguard reports that the meeting lasted two full hours and ended with a pledge by Buhari, to give the young nursing mother the best care and education the Nigerian government can afford.Buhari reportedly expressed delight at Amina's rescue calling it a new window of hope  for Nigeria and an opportunity to get vital information which could lead to the release of the remaining Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents two years ago.

Punch

The publication highlights President Buhari's "deep sadness" at the barbaric and humiliating treatment inflicted on Amina Ali Nkeki and the other Chibok students, in particular their forceful marriage to Boko Haram combattants at such an early stage in their lives.

Punch looks at the rising storm over the fate reserved to the suspected Boko Haram commander Mohammad Hayyatu, as well as what  Amina during her captivity

According to the paper, the Chibok Community issued a statement on Thursday warning that they would not accept the  father of Amina's baby as their daughter's husband.

The Nation

"Call Hayyatu a sexual exploiter not a husband shouts the Abuja-based paper, in a telling caption illustrated with a photograph of the captured insurgent apparently resigned to his fate.

But it's main cover page splash is the official photograph of President Buhari standing in his office with Amina's baby in his arms, surrounded by Amina, her mother and his wife.

The Nation reports that members of umbrella body representing the Chibok community, known as KADA are not happy with the mediatization of Amina's release by the government. The group reportedly issued a statement on Thursday warning that Amina is a "traumatised young woman who needs immediate care and not any further media circus".

The Sun

The daily has breaking news about the release of a second Chibok girl and 97 women and children after a raid on a Boko Haram lair in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State on Thursday.

The Sun quotes Nigerian army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman as saying that the girl who has been identified fled from her abductors alongside three others. Up to 35 Boko Haram terrorists were killed during the attack by special forces and arms and ammunitions recovered.