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Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by stanech: 3:37pm On Feb 22, 2018
A day after Yobe State authorities said some schoolgirls reported missing after a Boko Haram attack had been rescued by Nigerian soldiers, the Defence Headquarters has told PREMIUM TIMES it has no such information.

“We cannot confirm” the statement by Yobe State that some of the girls have been rescued, Defence spokesperson, John Agim, told PREMIUM TIMES Thursday morning.
Suspected Boko Haram operatives on Monday evening stormed the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Bursari Local Government Area, Yobe State, a state government-owned school.


The insurgents reportedly carted away foodstuff and other valuables before kidnapping some of the girls at the school, according to witnesses.
Mr. Agim, a brigadier-general, said he could not give further details about the military’s intervention in the matter.


The comment, the first from the Nigerian military since the attack, comes as Nigerians and the international community press for more details of the incident.
Already, there are conflicting figures from the Yobe state government and the police about the number of girls that have not been found.
While the police told PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday afternoon that only 30 out of the total 906 students at the school could not be located, Yobe government said 50 girls were still missing as at the same time.



Yobe State said in another statement Wednesday night that some girls were rescued and were with the Nigerian Army. Tje statement did not give any figure.
“The Yobe State Government hereby informs the public that some of the girls at Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) whose school was attacked by Boko Haram terrorists last Monday have been rescued by gallant officers and men of the Nigerian Army from the terrorists who abducted them,” Abdullahi Bego, a Yobe government spokesperson, said in the statement.
“The rescued girls are now in the custody of the Nigerian Army,” he added.
But nearly 24 hours later, neither the military, which the state government said was in charge of the girls, nor the police could confirm that the girls were actually rescued from Boko Haram.
PREMIUM TIMES reached Yobe police commissioner, Sunmonu Abdulmaliki, but an aide who answered his phone said the police had no information about the rescue.


“There’s nothing we can confirm,” the aide said. He said the police would be working with a team of three ministers that President Muhammadu Buhari sent on Wednesday day to travel to Yobe.
“We hope that after the visit by the delegation, the picture would be clearer,” he added.
Mr. Bego did not immediately respond to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for comments on why the military and the police could not corroborate his statement that some girls were rescued.

Some military sources who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday afternoon said some of the girls who were said to have been rescued could be those who fled the attack into nearby bushes.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/259528-yobe-school-attack-cant-confirm-rescue-missing-schoolgirls-nigerian-military.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by Paperwhite(m): 3:41pm On Feb 22, 2018
Earlier on this same development:
Residents of Gaidam town has defied 9:00pm curfew hour in jubilation to welcome the rescued schoolgirls.

Daily Trust gathered late Wednesday night that children, men, women including house wives lined up on the Maine-Sorroa Street where they received the schoolgirls amidst cheers.

The children rallying on bicycles were chanting a slogan "Gari ya waye” in Hausa language which means “the insurgents are no longer threat.”


The rescued schoolgirls in a convoy of several vehicles with military and hunters drove into the Gaidam military base.

Malam Usman Kura, said for three years, he has not come out of his house around this hour.

"But today is a happy day, we are very excited. So my entire family has come to witness their return. All in this town are agog over their rescue", he said.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/breaking-jubilation-in-gaidam-town-as-rescued-yobe-schoolgirls-arrive.html


Another epic propaganda by the APC-led Yobe government & the inhabitants of Dapchi gone awry undecided They're not just smart even when lying.


Why're these northerners so much low life like this
So the image of the Buhari government is of more importance than their very lives? Continue pls.

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Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by FarahAideed: 3:49pm On Feb 22, 2018
The govt never disappoints with its lies jare

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Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by abouzaid: 3:52pm On Feb 22, 2018
"let's leave the north, they're pulling us behind" - Awolowo to Zik. the only way Nigeria can develop is by disintegration into different new nations.
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by Iykmann(m): 3:55pm On Feb 22, 2018
There's nothing like boko haram
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by buharitill2023: 4:03pm On Feb 22, 2018
What is the problem of idiotic pigs of Biafra.

If girls are rescued, they will Call it propaganda or super story,
If they are not rescued according to premium time, they will still call it propaganda.
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by eTECTIVe(m): 4:56pm On Feb 22, 2018
buharitill2023:
What is the problem of idiotic pigs of Biafra.

If girls are rescued, they will Call it propaganda or super story,
If they are not rescued according to premium time, they will still call it propaganda.

Their problem and everyone's problem are other idiots who seem to see nothing wrong in any of d embarrassment currently ongoing in d name of governance.. It is only an idiotic goat and person suffering from mad cow disease dat doesn't see anything wrong in any of dis
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by moderatedguy: 5:26pm On Feb 22, 2018
One chance govt with a RETARRDED leader
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by zakim(m): 5:40pm On Feb 22, 2018
lipsrsealed
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by babyphaze07(m): 5:49pm On Feb 22, 2018
Bring back our dapchi girls.
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by Gucciboss: 7:47pm On Feb 22, 2018
I give up
Re: Yobe School Attack: We Can’t Confirm ‘rescue’ Of Missing Schoolgirls - NA by DamiBukola: 10:29pm On Feb 22, 2018
buharitill2023:
What is the problem of idiotic pigs of Biafra.

If girls are rescued, they will Call it propaganda or super story,
If they are not rescued according to premium time, they will still call it propaganda.
Why the lies then? Are you guys under curse to be ditching lies now and then?

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