BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS ARE HIDING 'OUR' GIRLS IN A BUNKER - GOVERNOR SHETTIMA REVEALS

Governor Kashim Shettima while speaking with news men during a paper presentation, on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 revealed that the schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram suspcts were likely living in an under ground bunker constructed by the insurgents.
Shettima made the remarks in Abuja while presenting a paper at a post election conference organized by a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Savanna Centre, established by former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.

Shettima, who was represented at the event by the Secretary of the Borno Elders Forum, Bulama Mala Gubio, said the terrorists were able to build the bunkers since they operated unchallenged in such a vast area of land.

Boko Haram insurgents has vowed to take over the whole north easter Nigeria

“We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the insurgents in bunkers, I think the military must carry out their operations beyond the surface earth. They (Boko Haram) were also known to have dug tunnels to enable them move from house to house. So, having been left unchallenged for such a long time, such possibility cannot be ruled out which poses serious obstacles within the forest.

“The insurgents used their bases in the Sambisa Forest to launch deadly attacks and make quick retreat to their base which enabled them capture and take over control of all the local government areas bordering Nigeria with Cameroon, Chad and Niger, thus effectively cutting off the three neighbouring countries thereby declaring what they assumed was their independent territory (caliphate).

“Unless and only if the Sambisa Forest is effectively recovered from the terrorists shall we think of defeating the Boko Haram and begin to embark on a holistic approach for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the North East. In fact, at several stages the Borno State Government had intervened to reconstruct destroyed schools, health centres, homes, markets and so on, only for the insurgents to attack and destroy them again.”

Boko Haram bombings has destroyed Properties worth miilions of Naira and killed hundreds of Thousands of people so far

So far, Boko Haram insurgents has resumed bombing in Bornu State as they re-occupied the town from Nigeria Military last week.

According to Bloom Gist's Shema Shtima, the insurgents took over the place due to poor ansd steady deployment of security men after Nigeria troops recovered the place last month.