Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has dashed the hopes of families of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls saying many of them may never be reunited with their families.
Obasanjo, who made this known in an interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday, said that many of the girls may also give birth to children of the Boko Haram insurgents, thereby confirming fears that the teenage girls maybe victims of forced marriages or even s*xual abuse in the hands of their captors.
He also said that the insurgents may have separated the girls and not kept them in the same place, pointing out that even though he had a way of communicating with them, he has not been given the green light by government to speak with them.
The former president said that succeeding generations would continue to remember the girls who were abducted from their hostel in April by the Boko Haram insurgents who have held them captive since then.
Chief Obasanjo said that only some of the girls, who would later get pregnant and find it difficult to cater for the babies while being held captive, might be released by the group.
“I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing about them many years from now, some will give birth to children of the Boko Haram members, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they may release them”, he said.