Over the weekend, Cameroonian soldiers arrested a teenage girl attempting to detonate a bomb in the north of the country who claimed she was one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014. 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.
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 but upon interrogation, the military authorities say one of the girls was not from Chibok as she claimed.
Cameroon released the identities of the girl and another would-be female suicide bomber to Nigerian security agencies who recently visited Yaounde to see them. However, neither the self-confessed bomber Aissatou Musa or her accomplice Mamma Sali were from Government Girls secondary School Chibok.
One Cameroonian security agent said: “Available information as regards the acclaimed Chibok girl indicated that Aissatou Musa, who claimed to be one of the Chibok girls, is the daughter of Musa Bladi and Fanta mother of the Mandara ethnic group. The second girl is Mamma Sali, who is the daughter of Sali Chetima and Hajiya Bintou of the Kanuri tribe.
“Both hailed from Bama and speak in Mandara, Hausa and Kanuri. They have never been to Western school, except Koranic schools and they have no relationship with the 219 Chibok girls.”
For now, the girls have not been handed over to the Nigerian government because the Cameroonians are still probing some clues about Boko Haram from them. Apparently, one of the girls was found to be heavily drugged and bore several injuries on her body.
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