Kidnapped Students - 115 School Girls Still Missing After Kidnap – Principal Declares
A school principal on Thursday denied military reports that
most of the girls kidnapped from her school by Islamist gunmen were now
safe.
Reports also stated that parents of the kidnapped students have voiced their anger over the conflicting claims.
It could be recalled that the defence ministry and the government in Borno state, where the attack took place, have said that 129 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school in the Chibok area late Monday.
But on Wednesday, the military spokesman, Chris Olukolade said that all but eight of the girls were safe, citing the principal of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.
However, latest reports stated that the principal, Asabe Kwambura, told newsmen that: “The report from the military is not true.”
* Nigerian military men in Borno
She said the information provided by Borno’s governor Kashim Shettima on Wednesday that only 14 girls had escaped their captors was “correct”.
The mass kidnap, which has sparked global outrage, came just hours after the deadliest attack ever in the country's capital Abuja, where a bomb blast also blamed on Boko Haram killed at least 75 people.
“For the military (which) is supposed to find and rescue our children to be spreading such lies shows that they have no intention of rescuing our girls,” said Lawan Zanna, a Chibok resident whose daughter was among those taken.
“It is the highest form of insult,” he added. “They said our girls have been freed… Bring them to us because they are yet to be reunited with us.”
President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned his security chiefs for a meeting on Thursday to review the unrest.
The president also invited all of Nigeria’s 36 state governments to join a second security meeting later in the day.
The insurgency has cost more than 1,500 lives already this year, the deadliest stretch in Boko Haram’s five-year uprising, which the group says is aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north
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Reports also stated that parents of the kidnapped students have voiced their anger over the conflicting claims.
It could be recalled that the defence ministry and the government in Borno state, where the attack took place, have said that 129 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school in the Chibok area late Monday.
But on Wednesday, the military spokesman, Chris Olukolade said that all but eight of the girls were safe, citing the principal of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.
However, latest reports stated that the principal, Asabe Kwambura, told newsmen that: “The report from the military is not true.”
* Nigerian military men in Borno
She said the information provided by Borno’s governor Kashim Shettima on Wednesday that only 14 girls had escaped their captors was “correct”.
The mass kidnap, which has sparked global outrage, came just hours after the deadliest attack ever in the country's capital Abuja, where a bomb blast also blamed on Boko Haram killed at least 75 people.
“For the military (which) is supposed to find and rescue our children to be spreading such lies shows that they have no intention of rescuing our girls,” said Lawan Zanna, a Chibok resident whose daughter was among those taken.
“It is the highest form of insult,” he added. “They said our girls have been freed… Bring them to us because they are yet to be reunited with us.”
President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned his security chiefs for a meeting on Thursday to review the unrest.
The president also invited all of Nigeria’s 36 state governments to join a second security meeting later in the day.
The insurgency has cost more than 1,500 lives already this year, the deadliest stretch in Boko Haram’s five-year uprising, which the group says is aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north
READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/64743.html
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