On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:52 AM, DR SIKIRU ENIOLA <sikirueniola@gmail.com> wrote:
Prof sir, with sincere respects, I'm one of those who have serious doubts on this legendary tales of the missing Chibok girls.
The circumstances that sorrounded the the mysterious abduction and transportation of these over 250 girls were fairy and tales-like and nothing has happened to change this first impression. The picture that was shown and digitalized as a Dec shot is another latest example. Those, under whose regime this awesome incident happened, didn't go near Bornu until after 200days. It was our argument then that this national shame was orchestrated to divert attention from the series of explosive corruption revelations at the NNPC, Aviation and other sectors.
Therefore, its not criminal to hold contrary opinions. It is thus not " rather silly". What will elicit an apology from me to the whole World is the recovery of these girls and their proper identification. Up till today, None of those who was reported to have escaped from Sambisa forest was properly identified as a Chibok girl and they were never debriefed by any intelligence Agency to get an inkling of their memory pictures of their abodes or trails. We are all waiting.
Sikiru Eniola:
Well, if I state that I have never entertained some doubts about the veracity of the reports of the Chibok abduction over these past two years, I would not be telling the truth. Waxing incredulity to myself, I have asked myself several times how it was possible that transportation that went to pick up and deposit almost 300 persons went undetected both ways, both from the air and on the ground - no dust was raised along either way, and neither act (going and coming) was stopped? I have asked myself how housing and feeding has been arranged for all of these girls all of these time; and how so many persons must be deployed to guard them; and why it is that additional sighting or escapes or secret messages (either by the Chibok girls themselves or sympathetic detainers or co-detainees) have been passed all of these times.
Something is quite odd about the circumstances of their untimely capture, and in time, we all will know fully. Clearly, the previous Administration did not take matters as seriously enough as it should have in the early days following the event.
At the same time, SOMETHING did happen at that Chibok school that made several girls to disappear, that made them NOT to sit for an exam that they were preparing for, and for the school to be shut ever since, that made parents to be tearing up. Besides, the pictures and names of at least 178 students were published about a year ago (see below), and even the most skeptical person cannot state that these names are just fake and for political reasons, almost a year AFTER a change of government.
In the picture of fifteen girls just released associated with the "December 25" video, I could match eight of the names out of the 178 names released earlier:
1/ 117. Palmata Musa
2/ Martha James (there is one Awa James in the list below, no Martha)
3/ 110. Mariama Yahaya
4/ Naomi Yahona
5/ Kwazuku Haman
6/ Rifkatu Umar (There are four Rifkatus in the list below, no Umar)
7/ 158 Hauwa Ishaya
8/ 135 Ruth Amos
9/ 149. Muwa Daniel
10/ 45. Juliana Yakubu
11/ Ramati Yaga
12/ Naomi Yaga
13/ 156. Saratu Ayuba
14/ 42. Naomi Zakaria
15/ Jummai Mutah (there are three Mutahs in the list below - Kume, Lugwa and Hauwa, no Jummai)
At the end of the day, it does not really matter whether they are eight, fifteen, one-hundred or three hundred: just one daughter held in captivity for two years is one too many, and must not be forgotten.
I cannot imagine any of my three daughters in such captivity.
Bolaji Aluko
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APPENDIX
1. Deborah Abge
2. Awa Abge
3. Hauwa Yirma
4. Asabe Manu
5. Mwa Malam pogu
6. Patiant Dzakwa
7. Saraya Mal. Stover
8. Mary Dauda
9. Gloria Mainta
10. Hanatu Ishaku
11. Gloria Dama
12. Tabitha Pogu
13. Maifa Dama
14. Ruth kollo
15. Esther Usman
16. Awa James
17. Anthonia Yahonna
18. Kume Mutah
19. Aisha Ezekial
20. Nguba Buba
21. Kwanta Simon
22. Kummai Aboku
23. Esther Markus
24. Hana Stephen
25. Rifkatu Amos
26. Rebecca Mallum
27. Blessing Abana
28. Ladi Wadai
29. Tabitha Hyelampa
30. Ruth Ngladar
31. Safiya Abdu
32. Na'omi Yahonna
33. Solomi Titus
34. Rhoda John
35. Rebecca Kabu
36. Christy Yahi
37. Rebecca Luka
38. Laraba John
39. Saratu Markus
40. Mary Usman
41. Debora Yahonna
42. Naomi Zakaria
43. Hanatu Musa
44. Hauwa Tella
45. Juliana Yakubu
46. Suzana Yakubu
47. Saraya Paul
48. Jummai Paul
49. Mary Sule
50. Jummai John
51. Yanke Shittima
52. Muli Waligam
53. Fatima Tabji
54. Eli Joseph
55. Saratu Emmanuel
56. Deborah Peter
57. Rahila Bitrus
58. Luggwa Sanda
59. Kauna Lalai
60. Lydia Emmar
61. Laraba Maman
62. Hauwa Isuwa
63. Confort Habila
64. Hauwa Abdu
65. Hauwa Balti
66. Yana Joshua
67. Laraba Paul
68. Saraya Amos
69. Glory Yaga
70. Na'omi Bitrus
71. Godiya Bitrus
72. Awa Bitrus
73. Na'omi Luka
74. Maryamu Lawan
75. Tabitha Silas
76. Mary Yahona
77. Ladi Joel
78. Rejoice Sanki
79. Luggwa Samuel
80. Comfort Amos
81. Saraya Samuel
82. Sicker Abdul
83. Talata Daniel
84. Rejoice Musa
85. Deborah Abari
86. Salomi Pogu
87. Mary Amor
88. Ruth Joshua
89. Esther John
90. Esther Ayuba
91. Maryamu Yakubu
92. Zara Ishaku
93. Maryamu Wavi
94. Lydia Habila
95. Laraba Yahonna
96. Na'omi Bitrus
97. Rahila Yahanna
98. Ruth Lawan
99. Ladi Paul
100. Mary Paul
101. Esther Joshua
102. Helen Musa
103. Margret Watsai
104. Deborah Jafaru
105. Filo Dauda
106. Febi Haruna
107. Ruth Ishaku
108. Racheal Nkeki
109. Rifkatu Soloman
110. Mairama Yahaya
111. Saratu Dauda
112. Jinkai Yama
113. Margret Shettima
114. Yana Yidau
115. Grace Paul
116. Amina Ali
117. Palmata Musa
118. Awagana Musa
119. Pindar Nuhu
120. Yana Pogu
121. Saraya Musa
122. Hauwa Joseph
123. Hauwa Kwakwi
124. Hauwa Musa
125. Maryamu Musa
126. Maimuna Usman
127. Rebeca Joseph
128. Liyatu Habitu
129. Rifkatu Yakubu
130. Naomi Philimon
131. Deborah Abbas
132. Ladi Ibrahim.
133. Asabe Ali
134. Maryamu Bulama
135. Ruth Amos
136. Mary Ali
137. Abigail Bukar
138. Deborah Amos
139. Saraya Yanga
140. Kauna Luka
141. Christiana Bitrus
142.Yana Bukar
143. Hauwa Peter
144. Hadiza Yakubu
145. Lydia Simon
146. Ruth Bitrus
147. Mary Yakubu
148. Lugwa Mutah
149. Muwa Daniel
150. Hanatu Nuhu
151. Monica Enoch
152. Margret Yama
153. Docas Yakubu
154. Rhoda Peter
155. Rifkatu Galang
156. Saratu Ayuba
157. Naomi Adamu
158. Hauwa Ishaya
159. Rahap Ibrahim
160. Deborah Soloman
161. Hauwa Mutah
162. Hauwa Takai
163. Serah Samuel
164. Aishatu Musa
165. Aishatu Grema
166. Hauwa Nkeki
167. Hamsatu Abubakar
168. Mairama Abubakar
169. Hauwa Wule
170. Ihyi Abdu
171. Hasana Adamu
172. Rakiya Kwamtah
173. Halima Gamba
174. Aisha Lawan
175. Kabu Malla
176. Yayi Abana
177. Falta Lawan
178. Kwadugu Manu
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:52 AM, DR SIKIRU ENIOLA <sikirueniola@gmail.com> wrote:
Prof sir, with sincere respects, I'm one of those who have serious doubts on this legendary tales of the missing Chibok girls.
The circumstances that sorrounded the the mysterious abduction and transportation of these over 250 girls were fairy and tales-like and nothing has happened to change this first impression. The picture that was shown and digitalized as a Dec shot is another latest example. Those, under whose regime this awesome incident happened, didn't go near Bornu until after 200days. It was our argument then that this national shame was orchestrated to divert attention from the series of explosive corruption revelations at the NNPC, Aviation and other sectors.
Therefore, its not criminal to hold contrary opinions. It is thus not " rather silly". What will elicit an apology from me to the whole World is the recovery of these girls and their proper identification. Up till today, None of those who was reported to have escaped from Sambisa forest was properly identified as a Chibok girl and they were never debriefed by any intelligence Agency to get an inkling of their memory pictures of their abodes or trails. We are all waiting.THE WHEEL OF JUSTICE TURNS SLOWLY BUT IT TURNS.
On Apr 14, 2016 1:22 AM, "Mobolaji Aluko alukome@gmail.com [Ekitipanupo]" <Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com> wrote:My People:April 24, 2014....a day that will live in infamy when 276 girls were stolen from Chibok, only for about about 57 of them to escape soon after....The inability to rescue the 219 remaining Chibok girls remains a blight on the security intelligence capabilities of Nigeria. Until ALL of them are accounted for, any claim of temporary or permanent victory over Boko Haram is rather hollow.The video released is a glimmer of hope, and should erase the rather silly temptation to assert that the Chibok girls do not exist.However, as Information Minister Lai Mohammed indicated in his interview - without putting it in full words - when the video wasshot remains unknown. Even the video is digitally labeled as "December 25, 2015", captives, particularly young teenage women,who do not seem to have aged or look any different after more than one year in captivity is rather suspect. So was the video takenSOON after their capture, or in December 2015 twenty months later?Inquiring minds want to know.Bolaji Aluko
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/africa/chibok-girls-new-proof-of-life-video/index.html
Chibok's girls: A glimpse of the stolen
CNN EXCLUSIVE REPORTING by Stephanie Busari, Nima Elbagir and Sebastiaan Knoops
Updated 6:23 PM ET, Wed April 13, 2016
Maiduguri, Nigeria (CNN)They were stolen from their beds in a school dormitory: hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped by gunmen.
A few dozen escaped to tell of the night Boko Haram militants brought terror to a Nigerian girls' school.From the rest, silence. No sign of where they had been taken or what could have happened to them for almost two years, even as the world screamed #BringBackOurGirls.Chibok kidnapping: New 'proof of life' video 00:54Hundreds of parents left, day after day, night after night, and then months with no information.Until now.CNN obtained a video of some of the "Chibok Girls" sent to negotiators by their captors as a "proof of life."The video had been seen by negotiators and some members of the government.But no one had shown the parents. Until now.'Proof of life' recording
Rifkatu Ayuba catches sight of her long-lost, desperately missed, now 17-year-old. "My Saratu!" she wails, reaching out to a laptop screen, the closest she's been to her child in two years. She is desperate to comfort her little girl, but helpless.Saratu Ayuba is one of 15 girls seen in the recording shown to some of the families for the first time at an emotional meeting this week. Wearing a purple abaya, with a patterned brown scarf covering her hair, Saratu stares directly into the camera."I felt like removing her from the screen," Ayuba tells us, desperate to pluck Saratu from the mysterious location where she is being held and bring her home. "If I could, I would have removed her from the screen."The video is believed to have been made last December as part of negotiations between the government andBoko Haram.It was released by someone keen to give the girls' parents hope that some of their daughters are still alive, and to motivate the government to help release them.The girls, their hair covered and wearing long, flowing robes, line up against a dirty yellow wall. They show no obvious signs of maltreatment.Scripted appeal
As the camera focuses in on each of them, a man behind the camera fires off questions: "What's your name? Was that your name at school? Where were you taken from?"One by one, each girl calmly states her name and explains that she was taken from Chibok Government Secondary School. Only the occasional hesitation betrays a flicker of fear and emotion.As the two minute clip comes to an end, one of the girls, Naomi Zakaria, makes a final -- apparently scripted -- appeal to whoever is watching, urging the Nigerian authorities to help reunite the girls with their families."I am speaking on 25 December 2015, on behalf of the all the Chibok girls and we are all well," she says, stressing the word "all." Her intonation seems to imply that the 15 teens seen in the video have been chosen to represent the group as a whole.16 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsFalmata MusaHide Caption9 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMartha JamesHide Caption10 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMaraima YahayaHide Caption11 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi YahonaHide Caption12 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsKwazuku HamanHide Caption13 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRifkatu UmarHide Caption14 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsHauwa IshayaHide Caption15 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRuth AmosHide Caption16 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsIt's been two years since the "Chibok girls" were stolen from their families. For the first time, we see some of the girls alive in a video obtained by CNN. This is who they are.Hide Caption1 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMuwa DanielHide Caption2 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsJuliana YakubuHide Caption3 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRamati YagaHide Caption4 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi YagaHide Caption5 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsSaratu AyubaHide Caption6 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi ZakariaHide Caption7 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsJummai MutahHide Caption8 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsFalmata MusaHide Caption9 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMartha JamesHide Caption10 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMaraima YahayaHide Caption11 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi YahonaHide Caption12 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsKwazuku HamanHide Caption13 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRifkatu UmarHide Caption14 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsHauwa IshayaHide Caption15 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRuth AmosHide Caption16 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsIt's been two years since the "Chibok girls" were stolen from their families. For the first time, we see some of the girls alive in a video obtained by CNN. This is who they are.Hide Caption1 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsMuwa DanielHide Caption2 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsJuliana YakubuHide Caption3 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsRamati YagaHide Caption4 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi YagaHide Caption5 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsSaratu AyubaHide Caption6 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsNaomi ZakariaHide Caption7 of 1616 photos: A glimpse at the Chibok girlsJummai MutahHide Caption8 of 16The date given by Naomi matches information embedded in the video, suggesting it was filmed on Christmas Day, though whether that's true or whether the day was picked deliberately is unknown.Most of the 276 girls taken from Chibok on April 14, 2014 were Christian. They are believed to have been forced to convert to Islam by their terrorist captors.Their kidnapping -- and a lack of progress in tracking down and returning the girls -- sparked mass protests in Nigeria and across the world, with luminaries including Michelle Obama and Malala Yousafzai joining the social media campaign to #BringBackOurGirlsClassmate's lucky escapeThe Nigerian government says it has a copy of the "proof of life" video, and that it is in negotiations with those who supplied it to secure the girls' release, but says it remains unable to confirm or reject the recording's authenticity.Lai Mohammed, the country's Minister of Information, said there were concerns that the girls did not appear to have changed sufficiently, that they are not as different as one might expect, given the two years that have elapsed since their disappearance.Nigeria Senator: Chibok video obtained by CNN is credible 07:25CNN spoke to a classmate of the girls seen in the footage, who confirmed the identity of several of her friends.The soft-spoken teen, whose identity we will not reveal for her safety, was supposed to be at the school that Sunday night to sit exams along with the other girls, but made a last minute decision to go home, from where she could hear the school being attacked."We ran into the bush and stayed there for a month," she says.Watching the video, she becomes emotional, exclaiming 'Oh my God!' as she recognizes a close friend, points out another who was in the same hostel as her, and identifies one of the school's prefects, a leader in her class.While she considers herself one of the "lucky ones," the teenager says she still has nightmares about the experience."If I hear something on the news about them, it makes me have bad dreams and I cry," she confides.Two years of pain
Crowded around, their eyes glued to the computer screen, three of the girls' mothers weep and hug each other.Rifkatu Ayuba, Yana Galang and Mary Ishaya made the 77 mile (125km) journey from Chibok to Maiduguri reluctantly, not knowing what was in store; accustomed to endless media requests and intrusions into their grief, they arrived world weary and impatient.12 photos: In photos: Life after Boko HaramBut this time it was different: there was a rare of glimmer of hope.We told them we had important information to share with them about their daughters. Then we explained that we had a video of girls we believed to be their daughters and we wanted their help to verify it.Clad in boldly-printed headscarves and wrappers, the trio sat in the courtyard of a Maiduguri hotel, and watched intently as we hit "play."Within seconds, their worry-lined faces crumpled, the bottled-up pain of the past two years flowed freely. Hardly able to speak through the tears, Ayuba and Ishaya were able to point out their daughters, Saratu and Hauwa in the crowd of young women on the screen.Plea for negotiations
But for Galang, there was no such reward for her journey: She looked and looked, but her daughter Rifqata was not among the captives shown in the video.Taken girls of Nigeria01:08Her heartrending sobs as she came to realize this were difficult to hear."We have seen enough," she says eventually. "We know that the girls are alive and they are hidden. We are not worried. Our daughters look well."We have heard a lot of stories before but this video confirms that they are alive. The government should negotiate with Boko Haram."And there is comfort in this at least -- to know that, even after two years, there is still a chance the girls will be brought home to their families."I didn't see my daughter but I now have more hope that she is alive," she tells us and her friends. "You can see what is yours on the screen but you can't get it."All we want is our daughters."__._,_.___
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