Military Lied About Rescue Of Abducted Female Students; Principal Of GGSS Reveals.
Today, April 17, the Principal of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok claimed that the rescue of 107 abducted school girls in Borno is false.
The principal Asabe Kwambura said: "There is nothing in the military statement that is true about our abducted girls. Up till now we are still waiting and praying for the safe return of the students; all I know is that we have only 14 of them, and the security people especially the Vigilante and the well meaning volunteers of Gwoza are still out searching for them."
According to her, the military people are still searching the girls. She said that the management of the school haven't received any information about rescued students. She underlined that "all the information passed on the media by the military concerning 107 girls is not true."
Mrs. Kwambura confessed she was contacted by the military headquarters in Abuja yesterday and some person was asking her to confirm the number of girls released.
However, the principal admitted that what Borno State Governor said (about 14 girls that escaped and N50m for any info) is still the true picture of the whole issue.
"I told them that I don’t want to be seen to be contradicting myself on that because what the governor said was what we know about; and I told them there may be additional rescue of the girls, but up to this moment we have not received any of them apart from what we had before," the principal added.
On Wednesday, the military spokesperson at the Defence Headquarters, Major General Chris Olukolade, stated that 107 abducted girls were freed, that only eight of the girls were still missing. He added that the Boko Haram sect that participated in the abduction was nabbed by the military.
A top official of the Department of State Service (DSS) in Maiduguri also admitted that they don't have any information about rescued girls apart from the 14 that escaped.
A female senior Civil Servant with the Borno state government, who requested not to be named said, "What kind of nonsense is this for God sake? Why are they playing politics with the lives of these innocent girls; I had just called some of my relatives in Chibok and they told me none of the girls had been released apart from the 14 that escaped back to town. We hope the military is not doing some thing funny with this very sensitive issue."
When contacted late last night, Mr. Olukolade insisted it was the principal of the school who told the military that only eight girls were now missing.
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