The Nigerian Army has confirmed that a Minister is leading some parents of the abducted Chibok School girls to Cameroon to confirm the truth about the suspected female suicide bomber arrested in the country who claimed to be one of the school girls abducted by the Islamic militant, Boko Haram about two years ago.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman Kukasheka has said in a text massage to Correspondent on Monday disclosed the information, but did not however, disclosed the name of the minister or the names of the parents of the abducted Chibok girls on the Federal Government team for Cameroon.
He, however, insists that the Cameroonian authority has already disclosed that the arrested suspect was indeed one of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in April 14, 2014.
Speaking also to a top government official who did not want his name mentioned, he told our correspondent that, there is too much politics about the Chibok girls.
” I do not like the way things are being done in this country. If there is something like this, government should be proactive but we are still talking about setting up committee. As far as I am concerned, I did not know who constitute the committee and I have been working closely with the ‘Bring BackOur Girls group.’ I did not know which of the Chibok girls’ parents that was approached to go to Cameroon to check on the new development as claimed by the government of Cameroon,” he said.
When our Correspondent contacted 7 division spokesman, Col. Mustapha Anka, his response was that the media coordinator is the only one who can speak on the issue for now.
Speaking with an Elder of the Chibok Community in Borno, Elder Bulus Ndirmpaya, he said they heard that two parents of the abducted Chibok girls are to join the committee set up by the Federal Government to go to Cameroon but according to him, they did not know those who were contacted among the Chibok girls’ parents.
He said, those said to have been contacted may not be parents of the abducted Chibok girls but probably some relations or those who have taken upon themselves to represent parents of the abducted Chibok girls in Abuja, and are now feeding on the crisis.
“Parents of the abducted girls are peasant farmers, they are mostly living in villages or in IDP camps across the country. Those who always appear in television and speak to journalists both in print and electronics are people who are living in the city. Their children would never come to places like Chibok to school.” Elder Bulus said.
Several attempt to speak to Dr. Allen Manasseh, an activist of Chibok origin, who most of the time speaks for the Chibok community, particularly on the abduction could not answer his calls at the time of filing this report.
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