Abducted female students: Borno Governor offers N50 million reward for credible information

 

Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, said on Wednesday said he would give a N50 million reward to any person that gives credible information that would lead to the rescue of all the female students of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, who were abducted on Monday night by suspected Boko Haram gunmen.

Governor Shettima had on Wednesday briefed journalist on efforts being made to rescuer the girls from the den of the Boko Haram.
Mr. Shettima made the statement before news came that all but eight of the abducted girls had been freed by the military.
He said 129 students were confirmed by the management of GGSS Chibok as those that registered to sit for the WAEC exams. He said 50 parents have so far registered the disappearance of their daughters in the school.
Governor Shettima said that more efforts are being made to ensure that the girls are reunited with their family, and expressed happiness that some of the girls made it back to town on their own.
“Some of the girls were courageous.They were asked to prepare some meal for all of those in the camp but they took advantage of that and bolted away when their captors were not watching and ran back to town; that brought the number to 14 if we add them to the four that were able to escape on Monday night while they were being taking away.

“I have been briefed by both the principal of the school as well as the District of Chibok. We are glad to receive the news some hours ago that ten of the girls have been able to escape from captivity and made it back to town; and I want to assure the parents of those still at large that government is doing everything possible to ensure that they are rescued in one piece,” said Governor Shettima.
“I want to also make a pledge of N50 million for any information – relevant and credible information that will lead us to the rescue of these innocent girls”, he said.
“We have given instructions to the security agencies to marshal all resources towards rescuing these innocent girls. They are our daughters; we are personally distressed and very much touched by this sad episode. I will go to Chibok and spend a day or two until we make appreciable progress to rescue these kids. This period called for
sober reflections, it is not for blame games”, he said.
Abductors pretended to be soldiers

PH3MMIE gathered from an official of Chibok local government who spoke to some journalists in Maiduguri that the abductors actually dressed like soldiers when they came to the school; and they pretended to be on a mission to evacuate the students due to an impending attackn in the area.
According to the source; “When they came they told us that they were soldiers and that they have been instructed to evacuate the students from the school immediately because they had a security report that Boko Haram might be attacking the neighbourhood. No one suspected they were not soldiers until when they were leaving and then some security personnel tried to stop them, then they began to shoot. It was then that the girls knew they were in trouble and they began to shout for help, some even jumped off the lorry”.
Governor Shettima said he would be visiting Chibok town as soon as the security operatives who are still carrying out operation in the area gave him a clearance to do so.