Borno state Governor, Kassim Shettima, says he suspects that the Chibok girls are being held hostage in bunkers by Boko Haram.
The Governor made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja while presenting a paper, entitled ‘Holistic approach for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the North-East Nigeria region ravaged by terrorism and insurgency: The national and international policy options/perspectives’.
He said, “We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the insurgents in bunkers. I think the military must carry out its operations beyond the surface earth.
They (Boko Haram) were also known to have dug tunnels to enable them to move from house to house. So, having been left unchallenged for such a long time, such possibilities cannot be ruled out which poses serious obstacles within the forest.
“The insurgents used their bases in the Sambisa Forest to launch deadly attacks and make quick retreat to their base which enabled them to capture and take over control of all the LGAs in the Nigeria/Cameroon, Chad and Niger borders, thus effectively cutting off the three neighbouring countries, thereby declaring what they assumed was their independent territory (caliphate).”