[2][3][4] She was found on 17 May 2016 by Civilian Joint Task Force along with a four-month-old child and an alleged Boko Haram member, Mohammed Hayatu, who described himself as her husband.
[2][5] Ali was taken to the house of the leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Chibok, Aboku Gaji.
[8] In June 2016, the Bring Back Our Girls group as well as Ali's parents started demanding to know her whereabouts as they had not seen her since her meeting with Buhari.
In her interview with Reuters in August 2016, she stated that she was not comfortable with the way she was being kept from her husband Hayatu and that she still thought about him.
[11] While 21 Chibok schoolgirls who were formerly held by Boko Haram were allowed to visit their families in 2016 for Christmas, Ali and another girl, Maryam Ali Maiyanga were not, due to being reportedly deemed psychologically unfit to return home.