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Security Agencies Put Number Of Abducted Girls At 276

The Borno State Commissioner of Police (CP), Tanko Lawan and the State Director of the Department of State Security, Ahmed Abdullahi, have confirmed that 276 … Continue reading Security Agencies Put Number Of Abducted Girls At 276


School-girls-abductedThe Borno State Commissioner of Police (CP), Tanko Lawan and the State Director of the Department of State Security, Ahmed Abdullahi, have confirmed that 276 students of the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok were actually abducted on April 14, by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Both men gave the confirmations at a joint news conference in Maiduguri, the state capital on Friday.

Mr Lawan said: “So far, we have established that no fewer than 276 girls were abducted at the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok on April 14, 2014 by suspected members of the Boko Haram Terrorist Group”.

The CP disclosed that; “out of the 276 abducted students of the school, 53 female students have been rescued; while 223 are still missing; and suspected being held by Boko Haram terrorists in various parts of the state”.

He disclosed that the new collated figures were arrived at after series of investigations by the police, SSS, the Nigerian Army and from information gathered from parents and relatives of the abducted girls, community leaders, officials of the schools as well as local government authorities and the Borno State government.

“It is really difficult to say the actual number of girls that were abducted because; students from other secondary schools within the catchment area were deployed to GGSS Chibok for their final year examinations due to the peculiar security challenges in Borno State,” the state police chief explained.

The students, he revealed, were drawn from schools at Izge, Lassa, Ashigashiya and Warabe, stressing that it is for that reason that there were differences in the numbers of girls abducted by the sect members in earlier reports released after the unfortunate incident,

The commissioner said special telephone numbers had been designated for parents and well-meaning Nigerians to call and give useful information that would lead to the rescue of the girls.

The numbers, according to him, are +2348075897377; +23481777309 and +2348036121490.

The CP also said there were serious collaboration between various security agencies at all levels towards rescuing the girls and urged the people to assist security operatives with useful information that would lead to the rescue of the innocent girls.