Found this breaking news report on Premium Times.
Apparently the Nigeria military said today that some
schoolgirls abducted from Chibok town in April this year had
been rescued by Nigerian troops only to retract the
statement minutes later. Read the report below...
The Defence Headquarters has retracted its earlier
statement confirming the rescue of the abducted Chibok
girls. The spokesperson for the defence headquarters,
Chris Olukolade, had told Premium Times that a yet
unclear number of the girls had been freed and driven in
two Toyota Hiace buses to the Maimalari Barracks, the
headquarters of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in
Maiduguri. But less than 30 minutes after he spoke to us,
Mr. Olukolade called back to say he was withdrawing his
earlier statement.
He said he had been having difficulty establishing contact
with his colleagues in Maiduguri and that he was no longer
sure that the girls driven into the barracks were newly
rescued. Mr. Olukolade had told this newspaper the girls
had been freed and that the rescue exercise was still
ongoing and that appropriate statement would be made
later. Premium Times has also learnt that the girls driven
into the Maimalari barracks were those who escaped
earlier from the Boko Haram sect. The over 200 girls,
mostly teenagers, were kidnapped from their secondary
school in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14. With the
military withdrawing its statement, it now does appear the
girls are still in captivity
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