Nigeria – Unrest – Kidnapping – Chibok
Sun Mar 27, 2016 18:26:02
Nigeria is waiting for the green light from Cameroon to verify a would-be suicide bomber’s claim that she is one of 276 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.
With less than a month before the two-year anniversary of the brazen kidnapping which shook the world, 219 students from the northern town of Chibok are still missing and there are few signs that the Nigerian government is making progress on securing their release.
The young woman was one of two would-be suicide bombers arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday, with Nigeria planning to send a delegation including Chibok parents to the Cameroonian capital Yaounde to meet her.
“As soon as we establish permission to allow access, then we’ll put them on whatever flight is available,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu told AFP.
They will “verify whether (she) ... is one of the missing school girls abducted in Chibok,” Shehu said, stressing there was no guarantee she was telling the truth.
“Some of the reports I got indicated the two girls are not even 15, perhaps about 10 years old each,” said Shehu. If the reports proved correct, the girls would be too young to be among those abducted who were secondary school age.
“We are not ruling out anything at this stage.”
The two young women were each wearing a 12-kilo (26-pound) belt of explosives.
The “Bring Back Our Girls” advocacy group said Sunday that the Nigerian government needed to move quickly to verify her claim.
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