Female Suicide Bombers Are Not Abducted Chibok Girls – Community

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Leadership Sunday (Dec 7, 2014) 

Against the disturbing assumptions that Boko Haram may be using some of the abducted Chibok school girls to carry out their recent suicide bombings across northern Nigeria, voices from Chibok town have denied such claims saying none of the photographs of the girls involved in the attacks matched any of the missing girls, LEADERSHIP Sunday reports.

A government official from Chibok town, who spoke under strict condition of anonymity as he feared for his safety, said most of the photographs shown in both the conventional and social media did not match the faces of any of the 219 abducted girls.

“They can’t be Chibok girls because, the parents are still alive, even some that have died still have other children and relatives who usually see the photographs and judge if any of the suicide bombers resemble the abducted girls; and so far, we have not seen anyone yet”, said the source.

The source, who is also a stakeholder in Chibok, added that, “Though each time we hear girls being used for bombing attacks, we are very worried, but so far, none of them looked like our girls. As a matter of fact, even the ones arrested in Kano and Maiduguri were not speaking like Chibok girls and some of them claim to have come from the North-western states. This actually gives us the assurance that our girls are still alive and perhaps somewhere, and we hope they would return back home some day”.

In the next eight days, the 219 abducted Chibok schoolgirls would clock exactly eight months since their captivity on April 14, 2014. The president of the federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, had on the 21st July met with some of the parents of the abducted girls at the Aso Rock Villa where he assured them that their daughters would be rescued “soon”. but that promise had failed to see the light of the day.