Confirming the reports on the release of abducted Dapchi schoolgirls, Chairman of Dapchi schoolgirls parents association, Bashir Manzo, said an headcount is imperative to ascertain the numbers of girls released.
According to reports, the girls were said to be brought and dumped in the village by unknown persons believed to be Boko Haram.
The chairman of the Dapchi schoolgirls parents association, Bashir Manzo, confirmed that the girls were brought to Dapchi.
“My relatives and colleagues in Dapchi just informed me that the girls were brought this morning,” he said.
“I am heading to Dapchi now from Damaturu. When I get there we will do a head count to see if all of them have been released.”
It is not yet clear if all the 110 kidnapped girls were freed.
Recall that the federal government recently assured that the Dapchi schoolgirls will soon regain freedom.
According to the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, gave the assurance during an interview session on Dateline Abuja, a Channels Television’s programme.
He said: “It can be earlier; maybe a week, it can be two weeks, but we are on it, and I’m telling you with all sense of sincerity that we are closing in on them”.
“We have dispatched all the surveillance devices we have in terms of air, human resource, intelligence, and other forces that needed to be in place by all possible means and we have made sure that all that’s needed is being done to see that these girls are being found, wherever they are.”
Dan-Ali was also confident that the girls would return in the shortest time owing to the intelligence at the government’s disposal, though he could not say the exact time when this would be.
A faction of Boko Haram is believed to have kidnapped students of Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, in Yobe State on February 19.