The Chief Executive Officer of Murtala Muhammed Foundation, Mrs. Aishat Muhammed-Oyebode has said that the female suicide bomber undergoing treatment in Cameroon is not one of the schoolgirls abducted in Chibok on April 14, 2014.
Mrs Mohammed, in a signed statement circulated yesterday said, on Wednesday, March 30, “three authorized representatives of the parents of the 219 missing Chibok girls arrived the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) office from Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State to view photos of the girl claiming to be one of the 219 missing students kidnapped by Boko Haram.
“Mr. Yakubu Nkeki, chairman, Mr Lawan Zana secretary, Mrs. Yana Galang women leader of the Chibok Girls Movement , all of whose children are amongst the kidnapped 219 Chibok girls were upon their arrival shown photos of the girl who was arrested along with another woman on Friday March 25 carrying explosives in Limani, Cameroon.
By Tuesday afternoon, the Nigerian government had already informed the MMF that the girl has clearly identified herself as Maryam Alhaji Wakeel, 12 years old, originally from Maiduguri but abducted from Bama when the town was overrun by Boko Haram a year ago. The woman has identified herself as Aishatu Usman, a 35-year-old mother of two children.
However, the identification process was still carried out to lay to rest any claims that the girl is one of the 219 girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Mr. Nkeki, Mallam Zana and Mrs. Galang have confirmed that the girl and the woman do not fit the description of any of the missing daughters from Chibok.
We have also made arrangements for other stakeholders to view the photos at the MMF office in Abuja as we are yet to ascertain how the girl came to describe herself as one of the missing Chibok girls.