The delay in freeing the over 200 girls
seized from Government Secondary
School, Chibok, in Borno State, may have
exposed them to radicalisation by their
captors, who are now using them for
suicide bombings, a source has said.
The source spoke about the possibility
that the girls had been indoctrinated by
the terrorists in the last three months of
their captivity, hynotised and sent into
various parts of Nigeria and beyond with a
view to carrying out deadly missions.
Serial attacks carried out by female
bombers in Kano, last week, lent credence
to the claim.
The source, according to reports from
Vanguard, who has contacts with the Boko
Haram leadership, pointed out that it may
be difficult to change radical orientation
of the girls, who may now see their
malevolent disposition as an act of
righteousness.
“It may shock you to know that some of
the girls being used for suicide bombings
in parts of the North are among those
taken from Chibok in April this year,” the
source said.
Continuing, the source insisted that “it is
rather unfortunate that government
wasted precious time in rescuing the girls
either through negotiation with Boko
Haram or other means possible.
“It was clear from the outset that the girls
would not come out the same, after being
kept with their unwanted hosts for a long
time”.
Although the Federal Government said,
last Wednesday, that the Chibok girls
were not among the female bombers, its
spokesman did not provide any evidence
to prove his claim.
At a media briefing in Abuja, Coordinator
of the National Information Centre, Mr.
Mike Omeri, tried to ward off the
suggestion that the 219 school girls
currently in the captivity of Boko Haram
insurgents could have turned suicide
bombers.
It will be recalled that few days after the
abduction of the girls, a human rights
activist, who had taken part in failed bids
to broker a truce between the Federal
Government and Boko Haram leadership,
Shehu Sani, had raised the alarm that the
girls could be indoctrinated if not urgently
freed.
Sani in a recent interview revealed that
the prolonged detention of the girls by the
terrorists could dramatically alter their
fate and orientation.
According to Sani, the longer the girls
were being kept by their captors, the
higher the potential of their being
brainwashed to accept radicalism and
terrorism.
He said:”But the danger of keeping these
girls, without either using negotiation or
force to free them is that, everyday these
girls are being brainwashed by the
insurgents.
” If we are not careful, the Chibok girls
that would come out of captivity would
not be the same girls that went into
captivity. They would be indoctrinated,
they would be hypnotised and
brainwashed to the point that they would
be transformed into insurgents
themselves. And of what use would they
be?
“These are very young girls in their teens
with very open and vulnerable minds but
open to dangerous ideas. You can see how
a man would abduct a girl whose parents
don’t like him and, by the time the girl
comes back she is ready to fight her
parents.
“So, the danger is that as the clocks ticks,
it is ticking for us , for the girls and for
our reputation and integrity as a country”

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