Nigeria to verify if bomber is Chibok girl
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NIGERIA is sending a team to Cameroon today to verify a would-be suicide bomber’s claim that she is one of the 276 school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram from the northern town of Chibok.
With less than a month before the two-year anniversary of the brazen kidnapping which shook the world, 219 Chibok students are still missing and there are few signs that the Nigerian government is making progress on securing their release.
The Nigerian government said it would be sending a team to the Cameroonian capital Yaounde to meet the girl, who was arrested with another would-be bomber.
They will “verify whether a female suicide bomber arrested...is one of the missing school girls abducted in Chibok,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman Garba Shehu said.
“Doubts have crept into the claim following new information from Cameroon that the two girls were aged about 10 years,” Shehu said.
“One of the two is also believed to be heavily drugged and therefore not in full control of her senses,” he said.
The two arrested would-be bombers each wore a 12 kilogram belt of explosives.
The “Bring Back Our Girls” advocacy group said yesterday that the Nigerian government needed to move quickly to see if she was indeed a kidnapped Chibok student.
“For us if the claim turns out to be true brings hope that the girls are alive,” spokesman Rotimi Olawale said.
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