Four More Girls Escape

Four girls out of the 168 students of
Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok,
Borno State, that were abducted by Boko
Haram in April, have escaped.
The Chairman, Chibok Local Government Area,
Mr. Bana Lawan, announced this on Tuesday in
Abuja at a one-day stakeholders meeting for
validation of draft humanitarian response plan
for the abducted girls. The meeting was
organised by the National Emergency
Management Agency.
Lawan, who was represented by the Director
for Personnel and Management, Mr. Musa
Elijah, said the number of escapees had risen to
57 as against 53, while 164 girls were still held
by the terrorist group.
He said, “The people of Chibok are anxiously
waiting for the safe return of their children.
Except for the unfortunate situation where two
of the parents have passed on. They were known
to have BP (blood pressure) issues, although I
am not a medical expert, but they will not be
opportuned to welcome back their daughters.
“Latest report reaching us is that instead of 53,
those that have escaped are now 57 and those
remaining are 164 and not 168 as before. This
is out of the 221 girls that were abducted.”
Lawan explained that it was not all those who
registered for the Senior School Certificate
Examination in the school that stayed back.
“Those that registered for the SSCE are not all
that sat for the exam. Over 500 registered and
those who had relatives around decided to move
to various places like Kaduna and Maiduguri to
write the exams. Those that were left with no
relations decided to stay back to take the risk
and among them 221 were abducted.”
The chairman said the moral of the girl child in
the North-East was low as most of them were
discouraged.
“The school in particular has been existing for
long and the quality of education in it has been
diminishing. So I want to appeal to the Federal
Government, through NEMA and the
presidential committee, to intervene in
rebuilding the school,” he added.

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