DHQ Confirms Only 8 Schoolgirls Are Missing In Borno

More female students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, were saved in the evening of April 16, 2014, Wednesday, as the result of the ongoing search and rescue operations. 

According to the electronic message by the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, only 8 of the students are still missing. 

The troops were pursuing the terrorists, searching for the den of those believed to have carried out the attack, and captured one of them.

It would be recalled that suspected Boko Haram members raided Chibok LGA in the night of April 14-15, 2014. They set GGSS building ablaze and abducted between 103 and 200 female students, mostly aged 16-18. Some of girls were able to escape themselves, so the army has put the official figure of those kidnapped to 129.

In another development, troops deployed to restore law and order in Wukari, Taraba State, have apprehended 14 armed men who were involved in the fighting during the civil disturbances in the town early in the week. 

The fighting resulted in the burning of no fewer than 25 houses and displacement of over 200 persons.

The troops also captured a building where arms were being manufactured. Four locally fabricated machine guns, one sub machine gun, four single-barrel guns as well as 21 live cartridges were recovered in the process. Normalcy has since been restored as troops maintain patrols of the locality. 

Source: Legit.ng