President Muhammadu Buhari was on Friday told that utterances of government officials who were not competent to comment on the abduction of the Chibok girls posed challenges that almost marred the rescue of the Dapchi girls.
The Director-General of the Department
of State Services, Lawal Daura, disclosed this at the Aso Rock Presidential
Villa in Abuja when Buhari received the freed 105 Dapchi girls.
Daura did not name the officials, but
added that the negative impact of social media on otherwise classified
operations also almost scuttled efforts to rescue the girls abducted by Boko
Haram on February 19.
He put the number of the students
abducted from the Government Girls’ Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe
State, at 111.
He noted that the girls were on March 21
freed following “painstaking backchannel dialogue with their abductors.”
The DSS said six Dapchi girls were yet
to be accounted for and dialogue on them was still ongoing.
He recalled that Buhari had given a clear
directive to security agencies to use peaceful options to ensure the timely and
safe release of the girls.
The DSS chief said four of the girls
were discovered to have broken limbs and were sent for x-ray.
He said almost all of them had one skin
infection or the other having not taken bath for over a month.
“They have been medically examined, and
those with ailments were treated. The measures are to ensure that they are in
good health,” he added.
Daura said the feat so far recorded in the
release of the victims was a clear example of collaboration among security
agencies.
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