#BringBackOurGirls: 4 Army battalions mobilized for rescue mission
Category: Boko Haram News
More than 2 weeks after the Borno schoolgirls were abducted from the
Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok by Boko Haram terrorists,
the military has revealed that a major rescue operation is being planned
as 4 battalions have been mobilized for a mission to the Sambisa forest
stronghold of the sect.
Increased agitation for the release of the girls has sparked a frenzy with Nigerians mobilizing for protests all around the country and even abroad.
The widely accepted number of the missing girls is 234 but reports have it that they may be more.
The Borno Police Command and the Department of State Service are said to have stated that as many as 276 girls could be missing while a BBC report put the number at about 350.
Nigerian Eye reports:
The state Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko and the
Director of DSS, Ahmed Abdullahi disclosed this at a joint press
briefing held in Maiduguri last night.
Tanko said that the new figure was still not authentic as the
actual numbers of the missing girls could only be verified when more
parents, who were yet to know the whereabouts of the daughters, lodge a
complaint.
The CP added that 530 students from Chibok and other neighbouring
towns sat for the final examinations, and that 276 were abducted, while
53 others escaped.
This is just as former British Prime Minister, Mr. Gordon Brown,
has called for international military assistance, such as air support,
to be offered to the Nigerian government in the hunt for the abducted
girls.
Nationwide protests against the abduction also gathered momentum
yesterday as concerned women and activists embarked on protests in
Borno, Ibadan, Lagos and Kaduna states.
It was gathered that the battalions that will storm Sambisa
forest are taking positions around all the access routes into the
notorious forest.
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