I don't know why I had this feeling that the Nigerian army isn't coming clean about freeing the kidnapped girls yesterday, not the feeling has been confirmed. As being reported by Aljazera now..
A Nigerian school principal has denied reports from the military that most of the girls kidnapped from her school by gunmen were now safe, as the parents of those taken voiced anger over the conflicting claims.The defence ministry and the government in Borno state, where the attack took place, have said that 129 girls were abducted by Boko Haram fighters from a secondary school in the Chibok area late on Monday.
Chris Olukolade, a defence spokesman, said on Wednesday that all but eight of the girls were safe, citing the principal of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.
"The report from the military is not true," principal Asabe Kwambura told AFP news agency in Lagos on Thursday.
She said the information provided by Borno's governor Kashim Shettima on Wednesday that only 14 girls had escaped their captors was "correct".
The mass kidnap - which has sparked global outrage - came just hours after the deadliest attack ever in the capital Abuja, where a bomb blast also blamed on Boko Haram killed at least 75 people.
"For the military (which) is supposed to find and rescue our children to be spreading such lies shows that they have no intention of rescuing our girls," said Lawan Zanna, a Chibok resident whose daughter was among those taken.
"It is the highest form of insult," he added. "They said our girls have been freed... Bring them to us because they are yet to be reunited with us."
I don't know why a government like Nigeria would decent to giving conflicting information about the lives of 129 young girls. It simply shows they have not been doing anything reasonable about the kidnap. I watched the Minister of national planning confirm that Nigerian Govet freed the girls, now they are retracting their statement. too bad.
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