When School-Girls Routinely Escape From Killer Terrorists

by Eze Eluchie

Ever since the initial Chibok 'abductions', 'news-reports' are intermittently planted through media outlets (domestic and international) announcing the escape of some of the abducted girls from their captors.

This has naturally led one to wonder if these girls were actually 'abducted' by the dreaded Boko Haram group.

Or were the girls merely 'abducted' by some other persons (persons who had normal authority over them as to not elicit any resistance or 'childish efforts at escape during the abductions' - it certainly would not be out of place to expect a couple of students being abducted against their will to be ‘rascal’ and try to escape, which would have resulted in some students been killed or injured)

None of the students was shot during the 'abduction' process.

Could it be that the same terror group which has been blowing up Television viewing Centers, Drinking Spots and Bus Stations across Northern Nigeria, in the process indiscriminately killing thousands without regard to gender, age, creed or nationality could be so sloppy as to allow the escape of mere school girls from their 'firm grip'? Not once, not twice, but on several occasions?

The BH leader has never been videoed at the same location with the girls being shown as the 'abducted' students from Chibok. Are we to suspect that those who 'abducted' the girls are different from the BH we know?

Are we to expect more escapees?

Are there any concerted efforts at debriefing the girls who 'escaped' to understand more about the 'abductions'?

With news that the Bornu State Governor, Mr. Kashim Shettima (a character increasingly suspected to be a person of interest in the entire abduction fiasco), now plans to disperse the 'escaping girls' to various cities and towns across Nigeria to continue their education, an opportunity for such debriefing might be deliberately frustrated.

Some days after the Chibok 'abductions' Mr. Shettima, who declined explicit advice from Nigeria Federal authorities urging the temporary closure of the School in Chibok on security grounds (a closure which would have avoided the 'abductions' in the first instance), deemed it fit to embark on a whirlwind tour of foreign media houses to broadcast how innocent his government was with regards to the terror crisis in his State and how 'insensitive' and culpable the central government in Nigeria and virtually every-other entity was in the crisis. 

As this unfortunate tragic-drama continues to evolve, one only hopes that the parties involved in this sordid affair will not, in a drastic effort to blot their trail, waste the 'abducted' girls.

The Chibok 'abductions' continues to be a game-changer.

Picture: Images of some of the 'abducted' girls from Chibok as released in a video message - the BH leader was, uncharacteristically, not at the location where the video recording of the girls was undertaken.