There are reports that 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents have been sighted in southern Borno in seven buses awaiting movement to an unknown destination.
Residents of Borno revealed that the girls were sighted in the Gwoza-Bama axis.
Confirming this development to journalists in Maiduguri, a civil rights activist, Dr. Peregrino Brimah said residents of the border town between Nigeria and Cameroon involved in the search for the girls confirmed seeing the schoolgirls huddled together inside seven buses awaiting movement to an unknown destination.
The activist called on the security agencies to go in pursuit of the insurgents before the girls were taken out of the country. He also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to approve immediately the formal request of thousands of youths in the area to carry arms to confront the insurgents.
NigerianEYE also gathered that some of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, have been ferried around Lake Chad basin by their abductors.
A Chibok youth leader, Dr Pogu Bitrus, who stated this during an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said there was a report that the girls were hustled to the neighbouring country.
He said, “We have a report that the sect might have divided the girls into different groups and separated them to make it impossible to get all the girls in one place.
“Since the girls were abducted from GGSS Chibok by the Boko Haram, we heard that the girls were separated. Some were detained in Sambisa Forest, some detained around Gwoza, Marte and Monguno axis.
“For almost two weeks the security forces left us in confusion regarding their glaring inability to rescue the schoolgirls and no information from the security that will calm the frustrated parents.”
Bitrus has accused the government of not doing anything possible to rescue the final-year students of GGSS Chibok, adding that even if the government is doing anything possible to rescue the girls, it is not being revealed to anybody.
The search for the missing girls was then left in the hands of their hapless parents who rented 150 commercial motorcyclists, got some volunteers with cutlasses and bows and arrows and went into the forest determined to rescue their wards or die trying.
In the end, even they were forced to abandon the search when a warning came from the terrorists that if they didn’t stop, they and their children would be killed.
Meanwhile, Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun southwest Nigeria, has cautioned the military against an all out attack on the sect to free the abducted girls. He said this was necessary to prevent the girls from being harmed.
The popular cleric on Sunday during his sermon, urged the security agents to take it easy and abstain from deploying full force in their attempt to rescue the girls.
“I want to tell our security men that they should take it easy. They should not go with full force because it will bounce back on these children. Let us be prayerful and at the same time be tactical and strategic, so that they will not harm our dear schoolgirls. Their captors are in a place where they cannot move forward or backward. Confrontation is dangerous. The security men should be very careful in their strategy and approach,” he stated.
The schoolgirls were abducted on 14 April in their hostel at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram members dressed in army uniforms and taken to their stronghold in the Sambisa forest. About fourty of the girls escaped days after the incident. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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