Nigeria military said today that some schoolgirls abducted from Chibok
town in April this year had been rescued by Nigerian troops only to
retract the statement minutes later. Read the report below...
The Defence Headquarters has retracted its earlier statement
confirming the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls. The spokesperson
for the defence headquarters, Chris Olukolade, had told Premium Times
that a yet unclear number of the girls had been freed and driven in
two Toyota Hiace buses to the Maimalari Barracks, the headquarters of
the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri. But less than 30
minutes after he spoke to us, Mr. Olukolade called back to say he was
withdrawing his earlier statement.
He said he had been having difficulty establishing contact with his
colleagues in Maiduguri and that he was no longer sure that the girls
driven into the barracks were newly rescued. Mr. Olukolade had told
this newspaper the girls had been freed and that the rescue exercise
was still ongoing and that appropriate statement would be made later.
Premium Times has also learnt that the girls driven into the Maimalari
barracks were those who escaped earlier from the Boko Haram sect. The
over 200 girls, mostly teenagers, were kidnapped from their secondary
school in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14. With the military
withdrawing its statement, it now does appear the girls are still in
captivity
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