ABUJA – Borno State governor, Kassim Shettima, Tuesday,
said there was every tendency that the female students of
Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, abducted by
members of the Boko Haram sect, in April 2014, were being
held in bunkers, inside Sambisa Forest.

To this end, he has asked the military, which is combing the
forest not only to fish out members of the sect but to also
liberate the over 200 girls to carry their assignment beyond
surface earth.

Shettima, spoke in Abuja, while presenting a paper at a two-
day post election conference on security and governance,
organized by the Savanna Centre, a Non Governmental
Organisation, NGO, established by former Permanent
Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari
.
The governor, who was represented at the occasion by the
Secretary, Borno Elders Forum, Dr Bulama Mala Gubio, said
the dreaded sect, having operated in the large expanse of the
forest for so many years unchallenged, were able to build a
bunker, large enough to accommodate many people in the
area.

“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,” he insisted.
“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 possibilities cannot be
ruled out which poses serious obstacles within the forest,
“the governor added.

Speaking further, Shettima said: “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 their
independent territory (caliphate).”

The governor also said unless Sambisa Forest was completely
and effectively rid off of the terrorists by the military, any
reconstruction and rehabilitation carried out in the North East
region would be exercise in futility.

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Pic or I don't believe it

He knew they were building bunkers and tunnels in his state, and were unchallenged for that long but couldn't do anything to stop them as the governor of the state.

babdap:
Pic or I don't believe it

There, you have it!

Mrval20:
He knew they were building bunkers and tunnels in his state, and were unchallenged for that long but couldn't do anything to stop them as the governor of the state.

Its called Federal Armed Forces and not Bornu armed forces. He can't do a thing! Its Jonathan that was supposed to rise to the occasion

hmmmm...

grandstar:


Its called Federal Armed Forces and not Bornu armed forces. He can't do a thing! Its Jonathan that was supposed to rise to the occasion

And what efforts did he make to let the FG really understand they needed help if he wasn't careless about the situation?
Moreover, how does the security of a state become exclusively the duty of the FG?
Educate me, please.

Mrval20:

And what efforts did he make to let the FG really understand they needed help if he wasn't careless about the situation?
Moreover, how does the security of a state become exclusively the duty of the FG?
Educate me, please.

The mayhem started before he got there in 2011. Jonathan has Chief Commander of the Armed Forces receives security reports everyday.

Jonathan has been there since 2007! Thats a clear 4years before Shettima.

Its not his fault

grandstar:


The mayhem started before he got there in 2011. Jonathan has Chief Commander of the Armed Forces receives security reports everyday.

Jonathan has been there since 2007! Thats a clear 4years before Shettima.

Its not his fault

I know it's not his fault, I just feel he was being too tolerant(or afraid) and could've done better.

Jonathan