Suicide bomber: FG, Chibok parents, #BBOG in scramble mode

Following a claim by a female suicide bomber who was intercepted in Cameroon that she is from Chibok, a number of groups have are making frantic efforts to verify her claim.

The Federal Government, parents from Chibok and the Bring Back Our Girls Group (BBOG) are all jostling to visit Cameroon to see the suspect and verify her claims that she is one of the girls abducted from the Chibok community in 2014.

While reports suggest that the Federal Government is arranging to send some members of the Chibok community to Cameroon in order to verify the claim, members of the Chibok community in Borno State are also set to send a delegation to Cameroon.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed in a statement on Saturday, that the Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan; and Nigerian High Commissioner in Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Zakari Mustapha, had already swung into action and were receiving a lot of cooperation from the Cameroonian authorities.

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Meanwhile, Chairman, Chibok community in Abuja, Tsambido Abana said on Saturday that he had directed some people to visit Cameroon to identify the suspect, adding that he had also contacted the government about it.

He identified the suspected bomber as Fatima Alhaji, noting however that one of the abducted girls was named Fatima Dabji.

The community and the BringBackOurGirls coalition, said that they had been making frantic efforts to authenticate the claim by the suspected suicide bomber.

The two groups had contacted security agencies to confirm the identity of the suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up.

 

 

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