Matt and Sweat escaped from adjoining cells by cutting holes in pipes in the prison's heating system and had the time and nerve to leave a note bearing a smiley face and the words "Have a nice day".
Even after I escaped from them and live far away from my village, I am still afraid.
A local government official said he did not know how many of the girls had escaped but that many had walked through the bushes and back to Chibok.
Alfred Lakos's father, Laszlo, for example, was sent to a labour camp, from which he escaped, and survived.
In fact, around 50 of the girls had escaped by jumping out as they were driven towards Boko Haram's forest training camps.
Previous hostages who have escaped the sect have spoken of rape and mutilation, and some are so traumatised they no longer remember their own names.
That said, most of the favourites escaped a helter-skelter day of peaks and troughs with their Tour hopes intact.
An army corporal, Jorge Rodriguez Contreras, and a civilian lawyer, Gloria Urrego were taken along with the general, but a soldier who piloted the vessel escaped and alerted authorities, the minister said.
In the late 18th century, these two aristocratic Irish ladies, after several attempts (including one dressed as men), escaped on a boat for Britain, hunting, though they were only young, for "a life of sweet and delicious retirement" dedicated to "friendship, celibacy and the knitting of stockings", wrote Sir Walter Scott.
Catriona Ruane, a South Down assembly member, will be in charge of the education department, and Gerry Kelly, who escaped from the Maze prison in 1983, is taking a junior post in the Office of First and Deputy First Minister.
