The Federal Government is to send some
members of the Chibok community to
neighbouring Cameroon, to verify whether a
female suicide bomber arrested on Friday, is
one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
This information is contained in a statement
issued in Abuja on Saturday by Garba
Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity to President
Muhammadu Buhari.
The statement said already the Minister of
Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, and the
Nigerian high commissioner in Cameroon
had swung into action and were receiving a
lot of cooperation from the Cameroonian
authorities.
“It has been confirmed that one of two girls
is claiming to be among the girls stolen from
Chibok on April 14, last year, although
doubts have creeped into the claim
following new information from Cameroon
that the two girls are aged about 10 years,’’ it
stated.
According to the statement, one of the two is
also believed to be heavily drugged and
therefore not in full control of her senses.
It said that the Nigeria’s High Commissioner
to Cameroon, Hadiza Mustapha, confirmed
that the arrested girls might be brought to
the Cameroonian capital, Younde, by
Monday, at which point the High
Commission would seek permission to meet
with them.
The statement said that the Murtala
Mohammed Foundation had offered to
cooperate with federal government in
sponsoring two parents from Chibok, who
were selected to embark on the trip to
Cameroon.
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