Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s terror group Boko Haram has released, due to illness, four of the over 200 school girls it abducted in the northern town of Chibok almost one-and-a-half months ago.
The release of the girls on Tuesday brings to 57 the total number of girls who either escaped or were released since the abduction, which has gained world-wide attention.
Chibok Local Council Director of Personnel and Management Musa Kolo spoke in the capital city of Abuja at a one-day stakeholders’ meeting to validate the draft humanitarian response plan for the abducted girls, organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
The Nigerian military announced on Monday that it knows the whereabouts of the girls but would not rescue them with force.
The local Vanguard newspaper reported on Wednesday that the claim, by Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badel, had angered President Goodluck Jonathan, who considered it as a breach of military tactics capable of hindering the move to free the girls.
