The Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima
says there are indications that missing Chibok
girls might be living in Bunkers in Sambisa
Forest with Boko Haram members. He called on
the military to liberate the girls as they carry
out their operations in the forest.....He gave an
indication in a paper, he wrote and was
presented by the Secretary,
"We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living
with the insurgents in bunkers. I think the
military must carry out their operations beyond
the surface earth. They (Boko Haram) were also
known to have dug tunnels to enable them
move from house to house. So, having been left
unchallenged for such a long time, such
possibility cannot be ruled out which poses
serious obstacles within the forest. The
insurgents used their bases in the Sambisa
Forest to launch deadly attacks and make quick
retreat to their base which enabled them
capture and take over control of all the local
government areas bordering Nigeria with
Cameroon, Chad and Niger, thus effectively
cutting off the three neighbouring countries
thereby declaring what they assumed was their
independent territory (caliphate). Unless and
only if the Sambisa Forest is effectively
recovered from the terrorists shall we think of
defeating the Boko Haram and begin to embark
on a holistic approach for the reconstruction
and rehabilitation of the North East. In fact, at
several stages the Borno State Government had
intervened to reconstruct destroyed schools,
health centres, homes, markets and so on, only
for the insurgents to attack and destroy them
again."he said
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