A member of the federal government delegation to Yobe state and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadijat Bukar Abba, has revealed that there was no roll call of the dead ones among the released Dapchi schoolgirls contrary to the report that five of the abducted girls were dead.
Abba spoke with State House correspondence on Wednesday in reaction to reports that five of the schoolgirls were already dead.
She said, “I am very excited today. My name is Hon. Khadijah Bukar Abba Ibrahim, the minister representing Yobe State.
“I am exhilarated, I am happy, you just describe anything today, that is what I feel because the Dapchi girls have been released.
“We are very very happy. We have achieved what we had gone out to achieve and we thank the almighty God for His mercies.”
“As far as I know now they are taking a role call, so we cannot ascertain how many have passed on or whatever. We will find out much later on what the casualties are.”
On her advice to parents as regards the girls going back to school, she said, “I will advise them to continue sending their children to school.
“We as a government will just fortify the schools in order to make them safe for children to actually go and learn.”
