Chibok Girls: Nigeria Deploys More Surveillance Equipment

The Nigerian government has deployed additional surveillance equipment to aid the military in the search for the abducted Chibok school girls.

Briefing the press in Abuja on Friday, the spokesman for the military, Major General Chris Olukolade, said the deployment was in addition to two infantry divisions established and dedicated to the search of the abducted girls.

He told reporters that a Multi-National Joint Task Force had also been activated with the sole aim of rescuing the girls.

The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mr Mike Omeri, who hosted the news conference, appealed to Nigerians to desist from disseminating unverified information, saying terrorists create fear and panic in the minds of people by spreading false information.

The girls were abducted on April 14 by members of the Boko Haram after they destroyed parts of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.

Members of the sect had carried out series of attacks on schools, villages and Churches in the north east. The also carried out two recent bomb blast in Nyanya area of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital that claimed over 90 lives and also leaving over 260 injured in both attacks.

Since their abduction, the military had been searching for the girls but President Goodluck Jonathan at a  media Chat on Sunday said that no clue as to where the girls are had been given.

Last week, the military said it would reduce the amount of information it would make available to the public.