Borno State Police Command and the Department of State Service, DSS, office in the state, yesterday, released new figures of the missing schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, saying 276 students, not 234 were initially taken away.
This has contradicted the earlier claims by parents of the affected girls, who said 234 of their daughters were kidnapped when the insurgents attacked the school.
The state Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko and the Director of DSS, Ahmed Abdullahi disclosed this at a joint press briefing held in Maiduguri last night.
Tanko said that the new figure was still not authentic as the actual numbers of the missing girls could only be verified when more parents, who were yet to know the whereabouts of the daughters, lodge a complaint.
The CP added that 530 students from Chibok and other neighbouring towns sat for the final examinations, and that 276 were abducted, while 53 others escaped.culled
*I dont know if releasing the names will be a good idea,might spell doom for the girls or their families..what do you think?
Kema Chikwe suggested releasing the names but she made it look like the chibok abductions didnt happen
Are you for releasing the names or not?
I think their names should be released including pictures so that we would know the exact number of girls missing and then so that their pictures would be circulated in the media.. Even if the take them outside Nigeria,some people would be able to identify them but then again,their pictures might not even matter as I am sure they would be in their hijab from head to toe...
ReplyDeleteSo the principal of the school doesn't know the exact number of the gals missing? She should be fired.. So mothers have to come forward to say their daughters are missing before they know the exact number? Woo! So the principal can't go thru the register of those who were in school for the exams and find out those who are around and not.. I weep for Nigeria...
Their names are not necessary.... Their pictures are though... The stigma you people keep talking about, it's not like people in that neighborhood do not know who these girls are, so I don't understand the issue of stigma... Nigerians as a whole need to feel some closure if we can see the people we are fighting for... Their pictures are more than enough... Names are not necessary
DeleteWe also need to see the so called principal of the school.
Hian!!!What is this???
DeleteDon't they know the number of students they registered,how many they have left,and the number of girls that escaped!!!
Meanwhile the incompetent headmistress will sit behind her little desk and call GEJ clueless!!!
Most of you clamouring for The President to resign,or the military to take over...I just laugh...Am laughing cos this is a cancer that has come to eat us.
Have u asked yourselves why we don't hear of demands from this group just like their sister groups in other islamic countries???
So let's say GEJ resigns..oh yes the almighty Buhari takes over,,and suddenly they come up with the idea of declaring Nigeria a Sharia country...wait oh,i hope we will equally give in,cos remember we want peace abi??For how long are we going to negotiate with them?
What is really the way forward?burn the forest where the girls are?or open fire?or just walk in,smile and take the girls??
Some said BH has always been there but Yaradua and Obansanjo "had a way of dealing with them"hehehe..This is 2014 where innovations,equipment and social media has immensely aided this terrorists op..Hope you know back in the day,No Nigerian was willing to die in the name of a cause esp Almijiris...
I hope you people are equally aware that there were no blogs,twitter,uploaded videos that could report what was exactly going on in the previous administrations..What ever NTA gives us,we swallow...
Let's all consider all this before we type and press "Enter" here ooh....
For all we know "managing them like yaradua" might affect us even worse at the long run..We don't know if this people have sold us to d enemies oooh...I know and believe GEJ isn't sleeping,hes not the monster we seek...I have seen more curse on him than BH here.....United we shall prevail!!!!And for the people that have never heard a bomb go off here but will still want to tell me it's cos am not feeling the impact...Yes iam feeling the impact,I have heard the bomb,i have driven past the scene..So trust me,its close to home!!!!
I still believe in prayers
Me av tire for the case. Why does the figure keep fluctuating. Dont dey do the normal roll call we av in secondary schs dre? Wich shows hu was present/absent everyday.
DeleteStella I read a thread on nairaland that and they say the figs may be more than 234!!! As students from 4 catchment area were deployed to GGSS, Chibok fo their WAEC!!! This is very disturbing!
DeleteIn a society that stigmatises, it's a tough call
ReplyDeleteAt dis point!
ReplyDeleteI feel empathy for jonathan.
Dis ppl are painting him in a bad light.
Calamity left, right and center.
Poor jonathan az got mo dan enuf on his plate.
This tin don pass wetin jonathan fit handle.
Make US com help us oo.
And the figures keep changing.
Is it dat the principal doesnt know his numerals or e az amnesia.
Dey shld release d pics n names so dat d public cn identify dem.
Wen som1 gets missing, u release a full profile, if possible height sef.
I wish all dis wld end soon.
I don weak!
Me sef dey the Man, he has truely suffered. Stella don't fool yourself like Sahara reporters biko stop misquoting Kema Chikwe!
DeleteYes, names and pictures should be released @ dis point.
ReplyDeleteYes,we need their names and pictures....
ReplyDeleteLet them release d names n pix plsss, enough of dis backyard investigation. Jonathan jonathan Jonaaaaaaathan how many times did I call you, pls wake up from ur slumber.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you start by using your real name and uploading your ugly pix here to start with?
Delete#Stupid Queen Amy / .......Mtcheew!
Look at dis ugly miserably burnt sacrifial goat, better take ur poverty stricking self n zoom off my comment. Do urself a favour by using a hammer to knock out those thunderous dirty smelling teeth. Razz Yoruba tout.
Delete@Queen Amy....this is too much...lol
DeleteFor the love of God why are they hiding their names?! They should release it so we know the actual amount and how are alive when they are rescued.
ReplyDeleteThe 53 that escaped why haven't their been any interviews at all?
How do we know something is been done?
Other countries would have released names, pictures and age with their best subjects and sports.
Make una nor vex o. But am sure if my son or daughter managed 2 escape from such tragedy I won't give her 2 any media 4 any interview. Infact she won't last 1 more day in dat town. Besides wat will dey say oda dan we were sleepin n suddenly people started shouting n we started running. Dis whole tin nor get bearing o. Tessy just dey rant from one post 2 another. Welcome Yoslaw!
DeleteAbeg stella kema chikwe didn't say such she said y would she say such in a prayer conducted for them and the Sahara reporters misinterpreted what she said, plz search Google for her response! A mother can't say such! Releasing there names might bring trouble in d camp, oh God please fight for our land purge us of all evil, let peace begin to reign! Scared much! If abuja isn't safe then there is problem! There is no problem bigger or greater than God he knows all and sees all we need to do now is pray! Pray for wisdom for our leaders to do what's right let God purge them of selfish interests the masses are suffering the war between few people. Father hear our cry!
ReplyDeleteStella, the reason this kidnapp almost went quiet was because people didn't see the faces of the kidnapped girls.
ReplyDeleteAre there politician kids amongst them? What is hiding their identity going to do in protecting them?
They should release their names please. They don't have to show us their photographs (to avoid stigmatization in future) but releasing their names will be a good idea. If nothing,it will help us know the actual number of girls missing.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad.
Come to our aid oh Lord.
Do not release name, release the girls!
ReplyDeleteHaney
#bringbackourgirls
These incompetent morons. How many people registered for the exam? How many are accounted for? A-b = suspected kidnapped. U find 53, do the math
ReplyDeleteThey should release their names and if possible photographs.
ReplyDeleteThis one that the figures keep going up and coming down
There are so many inconsistencies in what these pple are telling Nigerians. Earlier it was 140, it later became 200 and later 234 and now it is 276, yet none of them, parents nor school has come out with the names or pictures of the abducted students? How come?? We know Nigerians like showing pictures when any smalll thing happens, how come none of the parents who came to abuja to protest, came with their children's pictures?? So many questions are begging for answers
ReplyDelete*deep sigh*. Pls, don't release d names.
ReplyDeleteThis ish is so disheartening. ...
ReplyDeleteWow @ disheartening!
DeleteEze, u no go sch, u dey para, dey scata english like dis.
If to say u com go sch nko?
Ehnnn... E mean say we go ear am ontop dis blog oo.
Tk sofli dey release dis eng oo, eng fit woundjure person oo.
I tell you
DeleteOsanobua lagho! Which kain tin be dis? Me and my sister were still sayin that right now nyanya will be safest place on earth, but how wrong we were! Now its the time for this security guys to up their game, may 29th is around the corner! They shouldn't gawk it o! So the many many road block na just wash! #idiarabainabit #shoot@sight #abokiisnotmyguy
ReplyDeleteIf they can tell all and sundry that they are about to launch an attack at the sambisa forest,(breech of security) then they should as well show the pics and names of students they are going in for.
ReplyDeleteThe visuals will even trigger more uproar and unrest amongst Nigerians until the girls are released.
I say no,do not release their names and pics..stigmaindfuture.com....
ReplyDeleteEspecially RAPE!!
I just heard from a reliable source how the girls were abducted.
ReplyDeleteBoko haram came into the school in Military uniform.
Went to the school authority and said the President or who so ever, gave them order to take the girls to a safe place cos Boko haram is coming to abduct them.
Few minutes later after the girls were taken away, the school authority got to realise that they are bk.
The brave kids were able to escape when their vehicle broke down, after they realise they are in the wrong hands.
Hmmm this country don tire me oh
Exactly! The Principal was fooled.
DeleteThat was why they could leave with such a high number of student without being interrupted
Nigerian with their lack of value for human lives, we are so used to deceit, whenever there is a calamity the true figure is nvr given. Even d journalist are not making it easy as many newspapers write different numbers of people involved, y can't dey all have same voice
ReplyDeleteNigerian with their lack of value for human lives, we are so used to deceit, whenever there is a calamity the true figure is nvr given. Even d journalist are not making it easy as many newspapers write different numbers of people involved, y can't dey all have same voice
ReplyDeleteTheir names and probably pictures should be released for their lives is already in danger since day one they were kidnapped.
ReplyDeleteNigerians wake up!Salient questions waiting for answers
ReplyDelete1.Bearing in mind the issues we have with enrollment in the north,how many students could have registered for sss3 exams in a small town in maidugri so much that the females alone are more than 200?
2.How can over 200 girls of secondary school age be moved from the town to a forest in a vehicle and not a single person saw them?Not even a single person? in a town?
3.The vehicle broke down along the way and the children were asked to push it and eventually another car was brought to transload them,yet no one sighted them?
4.How come the head teacher does not have a record of the students sitting for SS3 exams in her school?how big is this school by the way?
The federal government asked all schools to be closed at within that area after the Bunu Yadi massacre of students,why was the govt college Chibok not closed?
How come no one saw them when they were moving from the city to the bush,but now they are in the bush,every body seems to know that they have been moved to so so place,they were sighetd at so so place?
How come the Bornu state government has not allowed the 'lucky" girls that escaped to be interviewed even if their faces have to be covered?
Check the front page of the daily sun,wed april 30th,about 3 of the 'mothers" protesting had the same wrapper(aso-ebi).You mean that a woman whose daughter is missing had to wait for aso-ebi to be made for them for the Abuja protest?That would be the last thing on her mind.
Nigerians wake up.Check the article on New24 and you will see that the northern elders planned this to discredit the jonathan government
How come,How come?
Pictures are necessary cos its quite impossible to search for faceless beings..but releasing their names are not that necessary..its quite optional...these BH men can even give them a new name bydway.
ReplyDelete“NORTHERN ELDERS ARE PLAYING WITH
ReplyDeleteTHE LIVES OF THEIR KIDS BECAUSE OF
POLITICAL POWER. PLEASE ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN:
1. How many students are in that village school
that 276 of them were kidnapped just one
night raid? 2. What did Boko Haram use to
kidnap 276 students at once? Luxury
bus,aircraft or witchcraft? 3. Are they all
boarding students? 4. why did it take the
school authorities/Borno State government
almost more than one week to realize that the
figure of the supposely abducted students was
no longer 124? 5. Is it that easy to escape
from Boko Haram that almost 40 of the girls
were able to flee? 6. How did they find their
way home from the supposed forest that they
were taken to? 7. Why did the principal of the
school recant after giving information to the
military authorities that soldiers rescued
some girls? hmmm I have a weak conviction
that the scenario was created to achieve a
predetermined end. That is why nobody is
blaming the DPO, Area commissioner, Army
Commander, Field Commander, SSS state
Director, the state governor, the CDS, the
NSA or the security agencies. Rather, all
accusing fingers are pointing at the president.
What is the motive? – Make the president look
insensitive,bad, wicked callous and indeed
unelectable again. – Make it look the
emergency rule in the states has not worked. –
Stop the president from extending the
emergency rule any further. – Pollute the
minds of Nigerians so that the president
cannot impose total emergency rule that will
see to the suspension of all democratic
structures in those states(constitutional or
unconstitutional). The plan is to cry wolf where
there is none and they have succeeded in doing
that in order to get sympathy."
I don't think its ggss but fggc.. Either way its a boarding school,so most people aren't even from that state talk more of the village... Now I heard some other student were redeployed to write exams there.. So I believe the 200 and something
DeleteBH have machineries that the Nigerian army can not boast of,so how then would you ask such questions as to how they were taken?
Yes its a boarding school
They armies on guard and other armies haven't denied the act,so that means they are not lying...
CNN na film u just talk so o. But sha ur story add up 4 my brain after all no other story about it. I've always known d principal was either fooled or he released those kid under duress hence d silence. Make them arrest n detain that principal o
ReplyDeleteReleasing their names should suffice but pictures! Hmmmnn, some of the people asking for their pictures, if they see a young man dating/about to marry them tomorrow, they'll tell him to back off as she has been raped before...
ReplyDeleteIf only Nigerians weren't so gossipy and if only we didn't stigmatize victims... No pictures please except if you never want them to marry or mingle with the Nigerian society thereafter. The girls are not on the streets, they are in the forest. The pictures are only needed as "proof" that there was a kidnapping. Kema Chikwe is inhuman; but am not surprised.
Even if it is only one girl that was kidnapped it will still be too much. I am all for releasing the girls names please. Leaders are supposed to think before they open their mouth. I hope Kerma has leant her lessons.
ReplyDeleteStella,good day, I am sad. A friend of mine sent me a video this morn, and completely shattered my day, I feel a hollow, emptiness in my soul, Lord have mercy.
ReplyDeleteI pray that the video is not those abducted girls, they dug a hole and tied her legs and put her in the small hole up to her neck and filled the hole up with sand leaving only her head and stoned her to death, while other young girls were watching in a forest and they were speaking kanuri language. Kai, the way I was crying I cudnt immediately answer my husbands question of what was wrong. I pray it isnot those girls but I suspect it is them.
Father, Lord Jesus, Help those girls, help us, take away this pain.
Mrs A
Kai!!! I just got a vivid picture of ur writeup. BTW, pepper please submit ya sef 4 questioning.
ReplyDeleteAbeg they should release name and photographs. Who cares about if they call them rape victims in future. We are talking life and death here!!
ReplyDeleteAlmost every female has been raped before. Either forcefully or subtly. When you say no to your partner and he still does it while whispering sweet nothing, is it not rape?
Let's be concern about safety first...future will sort it's self when it comes.
Sebi it's someone that is alive that will marry.
What is the population of Chibok, that a government day secondary school is having 300 WAEC candidates?
ReplyDeleteNot just 300, but 300 female students in an environment where average marriage age is 12. For a school to have 300 graduating students, they must have at least 300 in each level, from JSS1 to SS3, though lower classes have more students than the final class. Does that mean Chibok school have around 1800 students?
With the amount of pedophiles in that area, how did they manage to have 1800 students?
How many trucks did boko haram used to convey 300 people?
How did 53 girls easily escaped from dreaded boko haram unhurt?
Does it mean these young innocent girls have no fathers and siblings because we are hearing only the voice of their mothers?
Can someone release the pictures of these missing girls and their full datas?
The school should release the WAEC registration number of the students and let us count if the number is correct.
I am not saying that there was no abduction but I disagreed with conflicting numbers they're giving. Nigerians should support government and search for the missing girls instead attacking government and playing politics with politicians. Divided house does not stand. Let them unite instead of playing into the hands of APC, El lufai, Oby Ezekwesili, Lai Muhammad and so on.
Government on their own should do more intelligent gathering to know the movement of these boko haram bcos they're not spirit. Terrorism is like cancer which no country can stop but can be reduced and check mate.