The Commissioner of Police, Borno state Command, Damian Chukwu has clarified that the 10 women released by Boko Haram along with three University of Maiduguri lecturers are not Police personnel. The Commissioner of Police stated this on Monday while addressing newsmen at the Monthly Police Officers' meeting. He said reports suggesting that the women are Police officers were misleading.
“That information is false; I have to react to it. It will be recalled that on 20th June, 2017, a burial party of one our women sergeants attached to the SIB who died in the course of duty was being taken home to Lassa in Askira-Uba Local Government Area for burial.
"And due to security encumbrance on Maiduguri-Damboa Highway, they were under military and police escort, on getting to a town about 30 kilometres from Maiduguri; they were ambushed by the Boko Haram and some women who took advantage of the empty space in the truck.
“So the women were trapped; we do not know their number but a few of them who were able to jump down, scampered for safety, escaped. Those of them who could not make it were taken away with the truck by the Boko Haram.
“Among them, since that time, we recorded only one woman inspector attached to the CIB, who happened to be a very close friend of the deceased sergeant, the rest of them are not police women and they are not wives of police personnel,” he added.