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The Federal Government has denied knowledge of a report which claimed that the over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok community by members of Boko-Haram sect about one year ago have been killed.
An official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Mr. Raad Zeid al Hussein, had said he believed that the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram a year ago may have had a sad ending.
He premised his verdict on the fact that the girls may have been part of the women who were
murdered by the insurgents before they fled from Bama and other towns in Borno State just before the Nigerian military and allied forces from Chad and Niger recovered the territories.
Scores of abducted women who had been forcibly married by Boko Haram fighters were slaughtered last month as the military advanced towards Bama and other towns to recapture the territories. Eyewitnesses said that the women were killed by the insurgents to prevent them from getting remarried to what they termed “infidels” after their release.
Reacting to the report, the Coordinator of National Information Centre (NIC), Mr Mike Omeri, on Wednesday during a security briefing in Abuja, maintained that all hope on rescuing the girls alive is not lost yet. He rather urged Nigerians to be hopeful as recovery of the captured towns and villages by Boko Haram were still ongoing by the Nigerian Troops, urging people to disregard speculations.
TheNation reports Omeri said:
“The search for Chibok girls continues and that is why even with capture of Bama and the rest, security and military have never relented, and until it is concluded, we cannot begins to believe speculation.
I think the one year anniversary is next week, and we hope to give a comprehensive report on what we know so far, and how far the searching has gone.
So, the assurance I will give you, is that everywhere is being combed and whatever element we found will be revealed to appropriate authority and nobody is going to keep anything secret.”
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