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March 27, 2016

FG verifying claims of alleged Chibok girl bomber in Cameroon

By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA – To ascertain the correctness or otherwise of the story of a fema le suicide bomber arrested in Borno state on Friday, alleged to be one of the missing Chibok girls, the Nigerian government has resolved to send some members of the Chibok community to neighbouring Cameroon.

Selected for the fact-finding mission were parents from Chibok.

They are Yakubu Nkeki who is the Chairman of the Parents of the Abducted Girls from Chibok association, and Yana Galang, the group’s women leader.

Fortunately, Murtala Mohammed Foundation has offered to cooperate with Nigeriaan government in sponsoring the two parents on the trip to Cameroon.

A statement on Saturday by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan and Nigerian High Commissioner in Cameroon have already started receiving a good intel from the Cameroonian authorities who have declared support.

According to the statement “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 crept into the claim following new information from Cameroon that the two girls aged about ten years.

“One of the two is also believed to be heavily drugged and therefore not in full control of her senses.”

Similarly, Malam Garba revealed that the Nigerian High Commissioner in Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Zakari Mustapha had confirmed “that the arrested girls may be brought to the Capital, Younde by Monday, at which point the High Commission will seek permission to meet with them.”

The statement added that “The Nigerian High Commission will receive the two parents and will facilitate their access to the two girls once permission to meet and verify their identity is obtained from the Cameroonian authorities.”