The Nigerian Military says it will not be in a hurry to rescue the secondary schoolgirls in Chibok who were abducted in April 2014.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Military Headquarters, Abuja, Col. Rabe Abubakar, who said this at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, noted that while it was of utmost concern to the military to rescue the girls, the operation required demanded adequate patience and planning.
Abubakar added that recent efforts by the military in the rescue of over 200 women and children held captive by Boko Haram proved that the military was on course in recovering the girls.
He said, “The issue of the low morale of the Nigerian military men has now become a thing of the past. The operation to recover the Chibok girls is alive and still ongoing. We have continued to make rescue efforts, and we will do all within our powers to bring the girls.
“However, we will not rush to do this. It requires diligent intervention and a high-level operation to rescue the girls. In due time, every captive of Boko Haram will be released. A lot of achievements have been recorded recently, and this cannot be disconnected from the high morale of the army.
“We want to assure our citizens that soon, insurgency will be a thing of the past. But, it is not only about the military or the North-Eastern region. It is our collective duty to ensure that there is peace in the country.
“The Nigerian army has put together a multilateral cooperation. Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon are partnering to ensure we win the terrorism war.”
The director, who noted that terror groups only thrived on information, said the military would forgive and rehabilitate insurgents who willingly surrendered to the army.
He said, “The Defence Headquarters has brought out a committee to work out modalities to set up a safe horizon. This is a place where terrorists who decide to surrender will go. Once they are there, they will be spared of any molestation and given treatments conforming to international best practices.
“A terror group can only survive on information. Information has been identified as one of the key elements relied on by terrorist groups to perpetrate their heinous crimes. It is for this reason that we seek collaboration with the media. We are not sleeping. We are cooperating with the relevant agencies in the fight against the terrorists.”
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ReplyDeleteOn the Chibok girls, it has been suggested that many of those girls have actually escaped and reunited with their families, but the families would not make it public for fear of stigmatisation. It would help if the parents of girls who are still missing would submit the names of such girls so we know exactly who is missing. While some of the girls may be dead, a 16-year-old girl forced to live with a man she does not want, may be able to escape if she really wants to - especially if she has been serving as a "wife" in which case she would have been doing normal house work!
ReplyDeleteBuhari said that they have been married out to the scattered terrorists. What do we beleive? Scam.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Buhari is wrong or that the whole thing was a scam. Certainly there were kidnapped girls. Certainly a number of them have been "married off" to terrorists. Some of them would have been killed as we read that they were forced to fight alongside the terrorists. But it is unacceptable that we do not even have the names or even the number of those really missing. As suggested by another contributor here, we need to know exactly which girls we are looking for. Otherwise, how would we know if and when they have all been found?
DeletePMB, when you want to release these innocent girls, then let them come back home to their parents! You know it as most Nigerians that you are part of the BH and will stand before God Almighty to account. You are the problem!
ReplyDeleteThere is no such issue as chibok girls. The campaign is over and the chibok issue was a cardinal campaign point used to overthrow GEJ so it should be rested now. As soon as PMB won, his stooge, Oby Ezekwesili stopped her noise about the chibok girls because her job was done. Please let us hear word
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 9.29. It's not only Buhari but the Northern mighty Muslims who want their power back, those old cargoes... Combines, Ango Abdulahis, the squint eyed Tone man, I forgot his name but he's a former CNN governor
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