By our reporter| Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Lucky Irabor, on Sunday said contrary to claims making the rounds, there is no escaped Chibok Girl currently in the custody of Nigeria’s military.
Irabor who made the disclosure when led other Service Chiefs on an operational visit to the Headquarters, Command, and Control Centre of Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri, but hopes that the operations being carried out at the moment will see that more Nigerians within the den of the insurgents will regain their freedom.
The CDS, however, said “we desire that the rest of the Chibok Girls receive their liberty and if our operations have helped these ones to escape, if it yielded such results, then we are glad. ”
The Military Chief said more is being done to strengthen the efforts of the army, with the hope that they will yield desired results.
Boko Haram gunmen in 2014 seized 276 girls aged between 12 and 17 from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state.
While some girls were rescued by troops in 2016, others have reportedly escaped over the years, with the latest report coming barely two days before the service chiefs’ operational visit to Borno.
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