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Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Cameroon in doubts over bomb girl’s claim to be Chibok abductee



Authorities in Cameroon on Monday poured doubt on a would-be suicide bomber’s claim that she is one of the chibok girls.

“We don’t think that she was one of the girls (kidnapped) from Chibok,” citing inconsistencies over her apparent age.


The girl in question is one of two would-be suicide bombers arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday wearing 12-kilogramme (26-pound) explosives belts.

Less than a month before the second anniversary of the brazen kidnapping which shook the world, 219 students from the northern Nigerian town are still missing.

“The girl was found to be heavily drugged and bore several injuries on her body. The girl’s health condition had delayed her movement to the far north regional capital of Cameroon, Maroua, as earlier planned,” the presidency said.

“Pictures of the arrested suspected bomber obtained by Nigerian officials indicated that the girl was likely a minor, between ages nine to 12 years,” the statement added.

The “Bring Back Our Girls” advocacy group said that the youngest of those kidnapped in 2014 was 16 years old at the time.

The Nigerian presidency continued: “Considering the well-known guidelines regarding the publication of photography of minors, we have decided to forward the pictures of the suspected bomber to the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (a non-profit) for verification by interested Chibok community stakeholders.”

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