Hunt for Chibok girls will take almost years
The Minister of Defence, Brig. Gen. Munir Dan-Ali, has said it will take years to rescue the remaining 19t5 Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. Dan-Ali said this in an interview he granted the Hausa Service of the Voice of America monitored in Abuja on Tuesday. Boko Haram terrorists abducted 276 school girls from a secondary school in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Although some of the girls have been found, 195 are still missing. Meanwhile, the missing girls’ parents have vowed they will continue to march on the Presidential Villa,Abuja, every day until they are granted audience by President Muhammadu Buhari. The parents, who were again refused access to the State House on Tuesday, claimed they had become the president’s enemies after voting him into power. Dan-Ali said the military had been pushing hard into areas where remnants of Boko Haram fighters are hiding within Sambisa forest, a vast area covering parts of three states in t