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►Parents of the over 200 Chibok girls abducted from their school in April have decried the strength of troops sent by the Federal Government to provide security in the devastated local government area of Borno State.
►According to the parents, the soldiers are too few, and are unable to keep the marauding Boko Haram insurgents at bay.
►Parents of the over 200 Chibok girls abducted from their school in April have decried the strength of troops sent by the Federal Government to provide security in the devastated local government area of Borno State.
►According to the parents, the soldiers are too few, and are unable to keep the marauding Boko Haram insurgents at bay.
Their representative, Mr. Ayuba Lanson, who spoke to Chat212 in an interview in Abuja, said roads leading to Chibok town, headquarters of the local government area, remain largely unmanned by soldiers.
He was responding to questions on why Boko Haram sect members have been able to continue attacks on Chibok, even when it is located about 40 kilometres from the Sambisa forest.
Chibok has suffered 15 attacks since the middle of April.
Lanson said: “From Chibok to Sambisa, there are a lot of roads where there are no presence of soldiers.
“You can only see soldiers within Chibok metropolitan area and Damboa and in-between Damboa and Maiduguri and Damboa to Biu immediately after the attack on the school.
“But now, you can hardly see soldiers on those roads. So, the roads we use are a free zone and Boko Haram have occupied the whole area.
“Sambisa is located in-between Chibok, Damboa, Goza and Konduga, Bama and Maiduguri. So, it is a kind of wide bush with a small settlements in-between.
“Sincerely speaking, if there are enough soldiers all the attacks wouldn’t have been going on. The soldiers are not sufficient. They are not enough. That is the truth.”
Lanson said the greatest desire of members of the Chibok community were the immediate return of their girls and heavy presence of well-armed security forces, “so that the remaining people will be able to survive; we want to return to rebuild our burnt homes.”
He lamented that in spite of the fact that Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states had been under a state of emergency for more than a year, the security situation had continued to deteriorate.
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