The Federal Government on Wednesday debunked media reports that five out of the 110 abducted schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe state died in the hands of their abductors. Khadijat Abba, a member of the Federal Government delegation to Yobe state and Minister of State for Foreign Affair who made the clarification while speaking to State House Correspondents
said there was no roll call of the dead ones among the released Dapchi schoolgirls contrary to the report that five of the abducted girls were dead.
According to her;
"I am very excited today. My name is Hon. Khadijah Bukar Abba Ibrahim, the minister representing Yobe State. I am exhilarated, I am happy, you just describe anything today, that is what I feel because the Dapchi girls have been released.
We are very very happy. We have achieved what we had gone out to achieve and we thank the almighty God for His mercies. As far as I know now they are taking a roll call, so we cannot ascertain how many have passed on or whatever. We will find out much later on what the casualties are.”
She assured that the government would reinforce security measures around schools in the region to forestall future occurrence.
“We as a government will just fortify the schools in order to make them safe for children to actually go and learn.” Recall that moments after reports emerged that the girls were released, some media outfits claimed that five of the girls died while in capticvity.
