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Angry Dapchi residents attack Yobe gov’s convoy over missing schoolgirls claims

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Angry Dapchi residents attack Yobe gov’s convoy over missing schoolgirls claims

Yobe State’s Governor Ibrahim Gaidam and his convoy escaped by the whiskers when they visited Dapchi community in the state on Thursday, as angry residents of the town pelted them with stones for allegedly lying that some of the school girls had been rescued.

The Boko Haram terrorist group, had on Monday, just days after Nigerian Army declared them completely defeated, attacked Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and abducted several schoolgirls whose actual number are not yet known, but certainly above 100.

The state government had on Wednesday claimed that some of the schoolgirls had been rescued by the Nigerian Army. It later refuted the claim to say that none of the girls have been rescued yet.

Following this development, when Governor Gaidam and his convoy visited the state on Thursday, the angry community members, who are still at a loss over the whereabouts of the missing schoolgirls, it was learnt descended on their visitors to express their disgust.

They were said to have as soon as sighting the governor and his convoy, began to grab already assembled stones and started throwing them at the governor and his convoy from different angles, injuring in the process, some aides of the governor and government officials.

It was further learnt that all the efforts of the security men attached to the governor to use tear gas to disperse the angry crowd did little or nothing to stop them, as they destroyed no less than seven vehicles in the convoy.

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A number of government officials in the convoy reportedly had bloodstained clothes following the attack.

Some of the angry community members expressed disgust that the government could be deceiving Nigerians that some the schoolgirls had been rescued when nobody was rescued.

Some of them kept challenging the government to present the girls that were rescued, while hauling stones at the governor and his convoy.

 

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