The Defence Headquarters has refuted media reports that many of the over
200 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped in April, 2014 from the Government
Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, have been impregnated by members
of the Boko Haram sect.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Rabe Abubakar, said the
publication by radio station stated that one of the girls,
who escaped from the insurgents and handed over to the military at Baga,
made the claim, was misleading and spurious.
He urged members of the public to discountenance the reports, describing it
as false.
He said while the security agencies would continue to sustain the search for
the Chibok girls and others being held captive by the insurgents, they would
not give credence to misleading reports with no genuine source of information.
Abubakar argued that there was no moral justification for the false publication.
He said, "The attention of the Defence Headquarters has been drawn to the
above-captioned published in a national daily of Saturday, October 10, 2015 in
which it claimed one of the Chibok girls, who escaped from terrorists'
captivity, was handed to the military post in Baga.
"The spurious report by the national daily is not only misleading but is once
again another unconscionable outing, as there is no iota of truth in
its entirety,
hence should be disregarded.
"In as much as the Nigerian military and other security agencies are working
round the clock to secure the release of not only the Chibok girls but also
other innocent citizens, who are held hostage by the terrorists, it
will not give
credence to misleading reports, which have no true source as we have
repeatedly pledged to inform Nigerians on the true situation in our ongoing
operations."
He pledged that the security forces, like all Nigerians and the friends of the
country, were determined to bring the insurgency to an end.
The Acting Defence spokesman added that the recent release of hundreds of
women and children from the captivity of the Boko Haram showed clearly that
the security agencies had not relented on the search for the abducted
schoolgirls.
