Four Abducted Chibok Girls Escape from Boko Haram Captivity – Report
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Posted On Oct 14, 2014
A US based newspaper, New York Post online has reported that four of the more the 219 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram from their hostel six months ago have escaped.
However, Chibok community also said it was not aware of the escape by the girls.
The miliatray authorities have also not confirmed the report as at last night.
According to the report, the free girls, all between ages 16 and 18, escaped with the help of a teenage boy prisoner, who managed to get them out of the camp, according to Stephen Davis, a British-Australian negotiator who had tried to bargain with the extremist Islamic group for the schoolgirls’ freedom.
The girls, guided by the setting sun, walked west for three weeks, finally arriving in a Nigerian village, starving and traumatised.
“They were amazing — to first escape and then walk for weeks,” Davis told The Times of London. “They are the only ones that have escaped from a Boko Haram camp.”
Davis said the girls had been told that if they fled Boko Haram, their families would be killed.
Director of Publicity Kibaku Area Development Association Dr. Manasseh Allen, of the Chibok Community in Abuja, said last night, after making calls, that he could not confirm the escape of the girls.
Six months have passed since more than 200 girls were snatched from their boarding-school dormitory in Borno State by Boko Haram operatives.
Their abduction sparked global outrage and a huge campaign calling for their rescue, partly propelled by the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
United States First Lady Michelle Obama issued a tweet holding a sign emblazoned with the hashtag.
Davis said several attempts to negotiate their release have fallen through.
Advocates have expressed frustration that the world has moved on.
“Even before Ebola and ISIS’s intensified activities, most of the world that stood with #BringBackOurGirls had moved on,” Ibrahim Abdullahi, the lawyer who started the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, said.
“But we here in Nigeria and a few others outside haven’t moved on. We have been persistent. We have been tweeting about it every day. We’re doing a daily one-hour sit out in Abuja and weekly in Lagos.
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