He, however, assured that the military would free the girls.
Mr. Badeh, an Air Chief Marshall, made the remark when the Board and Management of National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, paid a visit to the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.
The chief of defence staff assured that the military would soon free the school girls from their abductors.
He condemned the activities of the insurgents in the north, saying “what is happening in the northern Nigeria is pure madness.”
“It is not the number of those abducted that is the issue but the attendant psychological trauma of every parent.
“We were given information about where they are. We cannot use heavy power attack because we will kill the school girls but I assure you that we will free them’’, he said.
Over 270 girls were kidnapped from their school, Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14 by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. Of this number, 230 are yet to be found and are believed to be with their abductors. Forty-three others have been united with their parents with many of them escaping from their kidnappers.
Thousands of Nigerians have condemned the kidnap and asked the government to free the girls unharmed. On Wednesday, scores of women defiled the rain to protest in Abuja; demanding freedom for the final year school girls. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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You should have taken the war to them in Sambisa forest and wipe them out before they could ever think of abducting innocent girls. Why didn't you do that? You want them to continue to exist so that huge amount of money will keep channelled into security, right? I can just imagine a section of brainwashed and dumb guys bigger than the Nigerian army! How many dem be sef? The military need to really wake up please.
ReplyDeleteIf jonathan's daughter was among the kidnapped girls, they would have found and released them by now.
ReplyDeleteOga badeh,which ever way,tactics and method the army will apply to rescue those girls ‘ALIVE“ pls do. Nigerians and rest of the world are “SO“ anxious to see the Nigeria “GALLANT,SMART,INTELLIGENTAND NO NONSENCE“ soldiers,go into the sambisa forest and return with those girls safely. Wish
ReplyDeleteGJ said they are in his government so why not deal with the sponsors?
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ReplyDeletebefore d girls Wia kidnapped wy didn't u use heavy fire? the president has turned our respectable military into boys scouts because of his weakness
ReplyDeleteSir Alex Badeh should know how to rescue those girls alive being d cheif of defence staff coz he made a promise dat come april boko haram will be a thing of d past.
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