Suspected suicide bomber says she’s a Chibok girl

Suspicions that the girls allegedly abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, may have been turned to suicide bombers came to the fore again on Friday,  as a 15 year old female suicide bomber claimed to be one of the girls.

The suspected bomber, who was apprehended before she could detonate her bomb in Limanı,  Northern Cameroon,on Friday,  said she is one of the girls taken in 2014.

According to reports, two girls carrying explosives were stopped by local self-defense forces in the village of Limani, in an area of northern Cameroon that has been the target of frequent suicide bombings in recent months. They were handed over to Cameroonian soldiers belonging to a multi-national force set up to take on Boko Haram.

A local government administrator in the area Raymond Rosado,  said: “One of them indeed declared that she is one of the Chibok hostages. She is around 15. We are now verifying, because on the Nigerian side they have the names and photos of these girls.”

Two military sources also confirmed that the girl had claimed to have been one of the Chibok abductees.

“We need a few days to be able to confirm this information. We have to debrief all the men who were present and interrogate the two girls before we can say anything,” a military source said.

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