Boko Haram fighters,
fleeing an attack on their base last week might have used some of the Chibok
schoolgirls kidnapped on April 14, 2014, as human shields to prevent being
fired upon by fighter jets during the attack on Sambisa Forest.
The Theatre Commander of the military campaign, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. Gen. Lucky
Irabor, on Wednesday, showed journalists aerial footage he said was filmed
during attack on Sambisa Forest that showed the terrorists moving with women
and children.
“The haggard fighters were just using them as a
shield,” Irabor said at a news conference in Maiduguri.
Irabor added, “That is
why we did not engage them from the air. We had always believed and hoped that
going into the Sambisa Forest would afford us the opportunity to get the
remaining Chibok girls. What we can’t tell is whether those women we can see
were the Chibok girls.”
The terrorists had kidnapped more than 200
girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14,
2014.
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