{"id":25560,"date":"2014-04-18T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=25560"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T10:23:56","slug":"military-lied-about-schoolgirls-rescue-principal-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/military-lied-about-schoolgirls-rescue-principal-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Military lied about schoolgirls\u2019 rescue \u2013 Principal, parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Principal of the secondary school in Chibok, Borno State where over 100 girls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents has described as false, the claim by the Defence Headquarters that only eight of the pupils had yet to regain their freedom.The denial on Thursday by the\u00a0\u00a0 principal, Mrs. Asabe Aliyu, was corroborated by the parents of the girls, who said the military had by the DHQ\u2019s claim shown that it could not\u00a0 be trusted to free their children and wards.The DHQ spokesman, Maj.Gen. Chris Olukolade, had said on Wednesday that out of the \u201c129 girls\u201d kidnapped, only eight were still missing.He was also quoted as having said that soldiers who freed the pupils released them to the principal.But Aliyu told the\u00a0British Broadcasting Corporation\u00a0 Hausa Service\u00a0news monitored in Maiduguri, that apart from the 14 girls who escaped from their abductors on Monday night, she was not aware that any other\u00a0 had been released.She\u00a0 said\u00a0 the claim by\u00a0 the military was \u201ca blatant lie because\u00a0 I have not spoken to the Defence Headquarters spokesman.\u201dThe parents of the abducted students also on Thursday came hard on the military, saying they were willing to go in search of them since the military had shown it could not be trusted.The parents had after the news from Defence Headquarters thronged the school premises expecting to take their daughters home only to be told that they had not been freed.One of the parents, who spoke to the\u00a0BBC, said, \u201cWe were disappointed with the statement coming from Defence Headquarters\u2019 spokesman that the girls were rescued.\u00a0 Our children are still in\u00a0 the\u00a0 bush and if the military has failed, we will go after the insurgents ourselves even if it means sacrificing our lives.\u201dAs the denials came, Olukolade insisted that the principal gave the information that nearly all the girls had been freed.He however said the military would reconcile the claims after which a clear response would be given.\u201cWe want to reconcile the issues, when we do so, then we will speak on it,\u201d the DHQ spokesman added.Olukolade noted also that the military was intensifying efforts to ensure that those still in the abductors\u2019 den were freed.But the\u00a0\u00a0 Borno State Government yesterday said that as of Thursday, it had taken custody of 30 girls.The remaining 99, it added, might be with the military rescue team.The State Commissioner for Education,\u00a0\u00a0 Musa Kubo, who made this known in an e-mail to journalists explained that apart from the 14 who had earlier fled\u00a0\u00a0 the insurgents\u2019 camp, 16 others were brought in by their parents.The commissioner\u2019s mail read, \u201cI am right at the Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School, Chibok, the scene of the unfortunate abduction. At the moment we have taken custody of 30 girls.\u201cThere is an increase of 16 students whose parents returned them to school after they ran home on the day of the attack. We had made announcements and called on parents whose children and wards ran home.\u00a0\u201cThe aim is for us to take proper account of our 129 pupils who were in the hostel on the day of that unfortunate attack. You may recall that 14 pupils had earlier escaped from captivity as explained by Governor Shettima on Wednesday.\u00a0\u201cBy our records of 129 pupils being at the hostel at the time of that unfortunate incident, we are expecting the return of about 99 pupils who might be among those said to have been rescued by the military.\u201cMyself, the principal of the school, parents, other pupils and residents are awaiting the return of our pupils. We have no reason to doubt or contradict Wednesday\u2019s announcement by the Defence Headquarters, given the fact that the Military personnel are those leading the search and rescue operations along with civilian volunteers.\u201cWe are very hopeful that perhaps, the freed pupils are safely with the military and being brought to us. We pray that not just all our pupils return in good health but also all the security agents and volunteers safely return in good health after a successful and patriotic rescue effort.\u201dHe however appealed to \u201cparents to remain prayerful and hopeful that by the grace of God all the pupils will return to us in good health.\u201dBorno State Governor Kashim Shettima had on Wednesday said his government would give N50m to anyone that could provide an information that could lead to the release of the female pupils.<br \/>\nPunch Newspaper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"message\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Principal of the secondary school in Chibok, Borno State where over 100 girls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents has described as false, the claim by the Defence Headquarters&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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