The Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima says there are indications that missing Chibok girls might
be living in Bunkers in Sambisa Forest with Boko Haram members. He
called on the military to liberate the girls as they carry out their
operations in the forest. The Governor gave the indication in a paper he
wrote and was presented by the Secretary, Borno Elders Forum, Dr Bulama
Mala at a two-day post election conference on security and governance,
organized the GubioSavanna Centre, a Non Governmental Organisation,
NGO,
in Abuja yesterday May 19th. What he wrote after the cut..
"We
are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the insurgents in
bunkers. I think the military must carry out their operations beyond the
surface earth. They (Boko Haram) were also known to have dug tunnels to
enable them move from house to house. So, having been left unchallenged
for such a long time, such possibility 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 capture and take over control of all the
local government areas bordering Nigeria with Cameroon, Chad and Niger,
thus effectively cutting off the three neighbouring countries thereby
declaring what they assumed was their independent territory
(caliphate). Unless
and only if the Sambisa Forest is effectively recovered from the
terrorists shall we think of defeating the Boko Haram and begin to
embark on a holistic approach for the reconstruction and rehabilitation
of the North East. In fact, at several stages the Borno State Government
had intervened to reconstruct destroyed schools, health centres, homes,
markets and so on, only for the insurgents to attack and destroy them
again."he said
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