A 15-year-old female
abductee has said Boko Haram militants told her that the Chibok girls, who were
kidnapped by the sect last year, were somewhere in Sambisa forest.
Speaking in an interview
with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Hausa, monitored in Kaduna,
the girl said, “they told me that if I refused to marry one of them, they would
take me to the Chibok girls in Sambisa forest.” The girl was among those
rescued by the Nigerian military recently, and was now being attended to in one
of the centres in the North-East.
She was thankful to God
for sparing her life and hoped to reunite with her family soon, adding that her
father was in Maiduguri.
In a related development, the acting director, Army Public
Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka, has expressed delight that “our troops are
unrelenting in their determined efforts of vanquishing Boko Haram terrorists,
wherever they are.”
He said in a statement that “so far, they have been making
tremendous progress in Sambisa forest. In a fierce encounter, as at this
morning, they have destroyed seven more terrorists’ camps.”
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