Girls May Have Been Split Up By Boko Haram
Insurgents
As Nigerians continue to expect the US Marines to arrive in the
country to assist the Nigerian military operatives in the fight
against terrorism, latest intelligence reports gathered by the US
have added a new twist to the missing 276 school girls in
Chibok, Borno State.
According to an article published by CNN today, the task of
recovering the girls appeared to grow more complicated with
news that U.S. intelligence believe the 276 girls might have
been dispersed by the Boko Haram terror group.
"We do think they have been broken up into smaller groups,"
U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press
secretary, was quoted in the report made public some minutes
ago.
The American Navy man however, declined to reveal more
detail on how U.S. officials came to the conclusion.
It could be recalled that this is not the first time that this
sentiment has been echoed, as some other concerned people
have said recently that the girls might already have been moved
out of Nigeria into neighbouring countries.
"The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if
we can find information," former UK Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, the U.N.'s special envoy for global education, told
CNN few days ago.
"It's vital to use the information to find the girls before they
are dispersed across Africa, which is a very real possibility."
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