The Borno State Government on Wednesday said the 293
women and girls, rescued from the Boko Haram stronghold
in Sambisa Forest, were from Bumsiri Village in Damboa
Local Government Area of the state and not from Chibok.
State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Mohammed
Bulama, told journalists that the profiling of the 200 girls
and 93 women, rescued by the military on Tuesday, showed
that they were abducted from Bumsiri village.
Bulama commended the Nigerian Army for rescuing the 293
women and girls from captivity.
He said the government has started making plans to put in
place all the necessary structures to rehabilitate and
integrate the freed 293 females back into the society.
He said, “These girls and women rescued are still our
daughters as much as the Chibok girls and we have to
commend the military for liberating them, hoping that the
rest will equally be liberated.
“Though everyone had thought they were the Chibok girls
because of the hype surrounding the abduction of the girls,
but we should not lose sight of the fact that they are as
important as the Chibok girls and those that are still in
captivity, which we hope would be liberated soon.
“But at the moment, we are looking up to the time the 293
women and girls would be handed to us so that we can
begin the process of rehabilitating and reintegrating them
back into the society.”
The Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, in a
statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mallam Isa
Gusau, said the military’s operation that led to the liberation
was “gratifying regardless of whether or not the rescued
women were part of the over 200 schoolgirls stolen by
insurgents at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno
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