98 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity – Nigerian Army
Colonel Obinna Ezuipke of the Intelligence Unit of the Joint Military Taskforce in the North East, Operation Hadinkai, has revealed that 98 out of the 276 girls kidnapped from Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, on 14th April 2014 are still in Boko Haram’s captivity.
The Head of the Intelligence Unit of the Joint Military Taskforce in the North East’s Operation Hadinkai, revealed this to pressmen at its headquarters, Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, on Saturday.
He stated that 57 girls out of the 276 kidnapped Chibok girls escaped in 2014 while 107 girls were set free in 2018.
He further revealed that 3 girls were set free in 2019, 2 in 2021 and nine in 2022, making 178 girls.
While analyzing the activities of Operation Hadinkai in August 2022, Colonel Ezuipke said, “A total of 43 terrorists were neutralized, while 24 others were arrested by the troops in August alone, apart from the over 100 killed in September 2022, as well as recovery of various weapons, including 129 AK-47 rifles, 1,515 rounds of ammunitions, 16 FN rifles, 3 MG, 17 grenades, among others, during the operations.”
