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DAPCHI: IGP denies saying Leah Sharibu was already on her way back
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, Sunday denied knowledge of any information concerning the release of Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu who is still in the captivity of the Boko Haram terrorist sect.
The denial came barely 24 hours after IGP Idris was quoted as saying during an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Saturday that, “Obviously, I am aware and that is what we are just discussing. I am supposed to go to Dapchi today, but because of the girl, I learnt she may be released.
“It is a sort of understanding that we do not create much security situation and I move with a helicopter. By the time I fly there, they might think I break and that was why I postponed the visit to Dapchi.”
However in a statement by the force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, on Sunday in Abuja, he claimed that the IGP was “misunderstood and misquoted.”
“The comment of the IGP was misunderstood and misquoted. The misunderstanding may be as a result of the already released Dapchi schoolgirls expected back home in Yobe State today (Saturday) but could not arrive due to weather condition.
“The IGP could not also proceed to Dapchi because of same weather condition. The Force wishes the members of the public and the media to disregard the purported statement as not what the IGP meant.”
“The Force therefore reiterates that it has no information yet on the release of the last Dapchi school girl,” the statement read.
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Meanwhile, about 105 of the schoolgirls recently released by the jihadist group on Sunday re-reunited with their families.
They were brought back in five buses to Dapchi, Yobe State to the waiting arms of their parents at the boarding school where they were kidnapped on February 19.
They girls had after their release on Wednesday, been taken to Abuja where they spent three days, in which time they also met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.
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