This information is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday byMallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity toPresident Muhammadu Buhari.
The statement said that already the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan
and 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, Amb. Hadiza Mustapha,
had confirmed that the arrested girls might be brought to the
Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, 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 had been selected to embark on
the trip to Cameroon.
“The two are Yakubu Nkeki, Chairman of the Parents of the Abducted Girls from Chibok association, and Yana Galang, the group’s women leader.“The Nigerian High Commission will receive the two and will facilitate their access to the two girls once permission to meet and verify their identity is obtained from the Cameroonian authorities,” the statement added.
Our source recalls that about 250 Chibok
schoolgirls were reported to have been abducted by members of the Boko
Haram terror sect at the Chibok Government Secondary School in Borno
about two years ago.
About 51 of the affected schoolgirls
were also reported to have escaped from their abductors, who were
transporting them to unknown destinations, on the fateful day of their
abduction.
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