Osinbajo: Remaining Chibok Girls Will Be Released ‘Very Soon’
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured that the remaining Chibok girls will soon be released. He said this on Tuesday when he received members of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement at the presidential villa in Abuja. On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram insurgents abducted 276 girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state. The sect released 82 of the girls in May in a prisoner-swap deal with the federal government, and 21 were let go in October 2016. But since then, little has been heard from the federal government concerning the 113 still in captivity. Osinbajo, who was represented by Babafemi Ojudu, special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, said government’s silence is only strategic. He reassured the group that government had been meeting with service chiefs concerning the abduction of the girls as well as others in Boko Haram custody and that efforts were being intensified to secure their release. “I’ve been aske...