The Borno State Commissioner of Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo, has further clarified that it has only 30 female students, out of over the hundreds who were forcefully abducted on Monday night by Boko Haram sect.
The Borno State Commissioner of Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo, has further clarified that it has only 30 female students, out of over the hundreds who were forcefully abducted on Monday night by Boko Haram sect.
The dramatic abduction took place under the cover of darkness, and hours after the car-bombing incident in Abuja earlier in the week. Boko Haram militants kidnapped the students at Government Girls Secondary School, in Chibok, in the troubled state of Borno.
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The Commissioner, who spoke to newsmen after visiting the school, added that the 30 students at hand included those returned from their homes, and the ones who escaped in the course of the abduction on Monday. That would leave an estimated 170, of the 200 believed kidnapped, still missing.
Kubo said, “We are deeply worried over this situation our students find themselves (in.) Now, we have 30 students, that includes those that escaped, and the ones returned by their parents.’ Based on our directives, and towards an understanding of the exact number of those abducted, and the ones that escaped.”
Kubo, who was emotional with his meeting with members of the press, appealed to the Boko Haram sect to free the remaining students, a number not fully determined. “We are begging them in the name of God to free these innocent students, this is our plea to those holding them.”
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Confusion ensued today between the Principal of the school, Asabe Kwambura, and military authorities over claims that it freed 107 students which the principal debunked, and denied talking to the military.
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