Abducted Chibok girls
The
Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mike Omeri, has said that the
Federal Government is closer to finding the abducted Chibok girls.
He stated that security forces were
working on leads that would soon result in the rescue of the schoolgirls
from Boko Haram captivity.
Omeri, who said this at his regular news
briefing in Abuja on Monday, explained that the arrest of the chief
intelligence operative officer of the Boko Haram by troops had assisted
the security forces to get closer to finding the girls.
According to him, the Presidency is
working hard to end insecurity, and to prevent the security crisis from
spreading to other parts of the country.
He, therefore, appealed to landlords to
identify the origin of their tenants and their means of livelihood to
avoid housing insurgents or criminals in their houses.
Omeri said, “We are moving closer to
finding the abducted girls and we have identified a number of leads. The
arrest of the Boko Haram intelligence operative is assisting us in this
regard. I can’t speak much on this because the information is
classified.”
On the reported escape of 63 abducted
women from Boko Haram hideouts in Sambisa Forest, the coordinator said
he could not confirm the development. He added that he had reached out
to officials in Borno State, whom he said had yet to get across to him
with the right information.
Omeri, who commented on allegation by the
Chibok community that they were not being carried along by the
government in the efforts to rescue the abducted girls, explained that
the NIC had been giving out information in the media on the progress of
the rescue efforts.
“This centre has been giving out
information in the media and everything is in the open. So, I don’t know
what they meant by saying we are keeping them in the dark; if they want
security report, I don’t know about that. But we can’t give out
classified information,” he stressed.
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