Borno state Governor, Kassim Shettima, says he suspects that the Chibok girls are being held hostage in bunkers by Boko Haram.
Shettima says the over 200 girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram from the
Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State in April, 2014, are
being held in bunkers, inside the Sambisa Forest.
The Governor made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja while presenting
a paper, entitled ‘Holistic approach for the reconstruction and
rehabilitation of the North-East Nigeria region ravaged by terrorism and
insurgency: The national and international policy
options/perspectives’.
He said, “We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the
insurgents in bunkers. I think the military must carry out its
operations beyond the surface earth.
They (Boko Haram) were also known to have dug tunnels to enable them
to move from house to house. So, having been left unchallenged for such a
long time, such possibilities cannot be ruled out which poses serious
obstacles within the forest.
“The insurgents used their bases in the Sambisa Forest to launch
deadly attacks and make quick retreat to their base which enabled them
to capture and take over control of all the LGAs in the
Nigeria/Cameroon, Chad and Niger borders, thus effectively cutting off
the three neighbouring countries, thereby declaring what they assumed
was their independent territory (caliphate).”
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