John Agim, defence spokesman,
says the report that only 15 of the 113 missing Chibok schoolgirls are alive is
meant to discourage the government.
Ahmad Salkida, a journalist known
to have access to access to the leadership of Boko Haram sect, had said
majority of the girls had died in captivity.
Salkida said those still alive
had been married off. He challenged the government to speak the truth.
“I regret to state here that only
15 out of the 113 #Chibokgirls are alive today, based on my investigations in
the last three months,” Salkida wrote on Twitter.
Salkida, who said he had spent 13
years of his career researching and reporting the insurgency, added that his ”
knowledge of this crisis can’t be dismissed.”
But responding to inquiries, Agim said it is not the first time that the girls were said to have
been killed or married off.
He added that after such claims,
the government went ahead to secure the release of some of them.
“They are only trying to
discourage the government,” Agim said.
“In our operations, we have
rescued hundreds of people in Boko Haram captivity, and when we profile them,
most are not Chibok girls. But, look at when they first said the girls had been
married off, we were able to secure the release of some of the girls.
“Every time, they are always
saying the girls have been killed, we continue to secure their release just
like we did recently.”
When Garba Shehu was contacted,
presidential spokesman, to react to the development, he said “I don’t have that
information.”
Efforts to also get the reaction
of Texas Chukwu, spokesman of the army, proved futile as did not respond to
calls or text messages.
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Time will unravel the truth about the missing Girls. The girls are truly martyrs of our time. God bless them.
ReplyDeleteEvery sensible Nigerian knows that the Chibok girls that have not yet been retuened are dead. But what can we do? What do we expect the government to say? What do we expect the defence agencies to say? Nevertheless, the ease with which our leaders actually think we are so stupid to believe any garbage baffles me. I know we are stupid but not this stupid.
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