98 Chibok Girls Still In Captivity Since 2014 – Nigerian Army

Colonel Obinna Ezuipke of the Joint Military Taskforce in the North East’s Intelligence Unit has revealed that 98 of the 276 girls who were kidnapped from the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014, are still being held captive by Boko Haram terrorists.

This was revealed to reporters on Saturday at the Maimalari Cantonment, the headquarters of the Joint Military Taskforce in the North East’s Operation Hadinkai.

Out of the 276 kidnapped Chibok girls, he said, 57 girls managed to flee in 2014, and 107 girls were released in 2018.

The chief of the intelligence unit added that three more were rescued in 2019, two in 2021, and nine in 2022, making a total of 178 girls.

Providing data on 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.”

He revealed that the military conducted a total of 2726 patrols and 982 ambushes in an effort to combat the terrorists. He also said that the military noted 26 terrorist attacks, during which two soldiers were killed and nine others suffered various degrees of injuries.

Ezuipke disclosed that a total of 113 people who serve as the terrorists’ suppliers of food, fertilizer, and other logistics have been detained since June 2022.

He claimed that throughout the time under consideration, the army also saved a lot of women and children and destroyed the terrorists’ homes and safe houses.