Two years ago, Boko Haram abducted 219 pupils from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State while they were asleep in their boarding school. Yesterday, two girls were arrested in Cameroon while carrying explosives after they were stopped by local self-defence forces in the village of Limani in the north of the country.
They were then handed over to Cameroonian soldiers belonging to the multi-national force set up to take on Boko Haram. Military sources confirmed that one of the girls claimed to have been one of the Chibok abductees.
Raymond Roksdo, a local government administrator, said: “One of them indeed declared that she is one of the Chibok hostages. She is around 15 and we are now verifying because on the Nigerian side they have the names and photos of these girls.
A Cameroonian military source added: “We need a few days to be able to confirm this information. We have to debrief all the men who were present and interrogate the two girls before we can say anything.”
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