The Inspector General
Police, Usman Alkali-Baba has hinted that some of the abducted Chibok girls who
recently returned and reunited with their families have expressed willingness
to return to their captors.
The IGP said this while
speaking on the status of internal security at the weekly briefings coordinated
by the Presidential Media Team in Abuja. He noted that some of the abducted
girls, especially those who were forced into marriage and had children for
their captors only returned to see their families.
According to him, the
issue of Chibok girls you know they are coming out one after another and gradually.
Sometimes they come out and say yes, we have come to see our parents and we
want to go back.
“So, maybe they have
been assimilated or acclimatized with the situation and indoctrinated and had
become part and parcel of those who have abducted them.
“But like as I’m saying,
it is a continuous effort and even last month, you saw a Chibok girl coming out
with two or three kids and said she only came to greet her parents and she
wants to go back. So, we are still on it, there is hope,” he said.
Recall that the Boko
Haram terrorists had abducted 270 Chibok girls from Chibok town, Borno State in
2014, but over 100 have since been freed or managed to escape.
In August 2022, Ruth
Ngladar Pogu and a man, she revealed to have been married to in captivity
surrendered to the Nigerian military, with her two children.
That same month, Falmata
Lawal and her child were rescued by troops of the Nigerian Army. Also in
September, Asabe Ali with her one-year-old child was rescued by troops of the
21 Special Armour Brigade in Bama.
Baba while speaking on
the issue of insecurity said, “There are a lot of other things that can be
done. We were able to rescue the whole of Forestry students in Kaduna through
negotiation.
“We were able to rescue
many others, which I can give you an example, for those that we are in contact
with, there are things that we are doing, it is a new crime and requires new
ways of approaching it and new ways of dousing it.
“Clearly, it is under
study. For instance, the issue of Train negotiators and so forth were not an
issue before, but now we are looking into it and we are putting our personnel
to undergo such training and courses. So, we will not say hope is lost. We are
still on it.”
He, however, noted that
the Force has increased security presence on major roads to check the rate of
crime in the country.
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