Dapchi: Lawmaker calls for release of other abductees

Lawmakers and activists have called for concerted eff orts to secure the release of the remaining Dapchi school girls’ abductees.
A federal lawmaker representing Michika, Madagali federal constituency, Mr Adamu Kamale, said further efforts were needed to ensure that the remaining girls that are yet to regain their freedom are eventually freed.
“It’s good news to all Nigerians, because it has been our fervent prayers to see them back.
We thank the president for his efforts such efforts should be sustained to recover others including our women and Children of Madagali that were abducted in hundreds.
“Besides, the Chibok and Dapchi schoolgirls other women and children were also abducted particularly in Madagali, Michika, Gwoza, Chibok and other villages in norTheast Nigeria.
“So, we want President Buhari to sustain the efforts in seeing the release of all abductees and to bring to end the insurgency,’’ Kamale urges.
Similarly, a legal luminary and human rights activist, Barrister Sunday Joshua Wigra, expressed mixed feelings over the release of some girls, stressing that the parents of the –yet-to-be released girls must be psychologically down.
“Well, we are very happy that these school girls were returned back to their parents.
It’s a thing of joy but the truth of the matter is that there are lot of doubts as to the roles government played.
“These are the same people that say they could not find their whereabouts- there was complicity in the whole saga.
“You know people are still doubting because ‘an invisible, omnipotent Boko Haram captured these girls in trucks, drove them across long distances, hid them in an invisible place, and then we just woke up this morning to hear that they were again reloaded in the same trucks and returned them back to the same school.
We are yet to established whether ransom money was paid or not,’’ said he.
Further, Wigra recalled that, “Even minister of Defence, Dan Ali, must have known what he was alluding to, when few days earlier he boldly stated that the girls will be released.
“The pertinent question that remains is who gave the order for the military to pull out on the approach of the terrorists in their highly visible trucks? How was the release of the girls secured, since there was no armed rescued? We do hope that, this government will not indulge in dangerously deceptive schemes,’’ he noted.