There was wild jubilation in
Dapchi town on Sunday as freed Dapchi schoolgirls reunited with their parents
in Dapchi town, Yobe State.
They arrived the town around 3pm
under heavy security by the Nigerian Air Force.
A NAF C-130 Hercules Aircraft
airlifted the schoolgirls on Sunday morning from Abuja to Maiduguri, Borno
State, from where they were taken by road to Dapchi.
However, the girls on their
return told newsmen that they would not go back to their school.
This is also as some parents
declared that they would look for other schools outside the North-East for
their children.
One of the freed girls also said
the Federal Government gave them N10,000 each on their departure from Abuja on
Sunday.
The girls were later handed over
to their parents at the Assembly Hall of the school in Dapchi, the headquarters
of Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State.
The NAF Director of Public
Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, confirmed the
return of the girls to Dapchi.
Adesanya said, “The air force
airlifted the Dapchi girls back to Maiduguri on Sunday from where they will be
transported to Dapchi under an armed air escort, to reunite with their
families. The return of the girls to their community took place after President
Muhammadu Buhari and other top government officials received them at the
Government House in Abuja on March 23.
“All the girls, including a boy
and three teachers from the school, were seen boarding the aircraft.”
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