CHIBOK GIRLS MAY LIKELY BE HELD IN BUNKERS-GOVERNOR SHETTIMA

Borno State Governor, Kassim Shettima has said that there is every likelihood that the 200 Chibok girls who were adopted on April 14, 2014 may be held in bunkers in the Sambisa forest.
He therefore called on the military to go after Boko Haram insurgents and liberate the girls.
Shettima also said that the 13,000 figure being peddled by the media as the number of lives lost to the insurgency in the north-east was a far cry from over 300,000 people who have been killed by the Islamic militants.
Governor Shettima spoke on Tuesday evening while presenting a paper, "Holistic Approach for the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of the North-East Ravaged by Terrorism and Insurgency: The National and International Policy Options/Perspectives" in Abuja.
The event was a two-day post election conference on security and governance organised by a non-governmental organisation, Savanna Centre established by a former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.
Governor Shettima was represented at the event by the Secretary, Borno Elder's Forum, Bulam Mala Gubio, who said,
"We are suspecting that Chibok girls are living with the insurgents in bunker. I think the military must carry out their operations beyond the earth surface. They (Boko Haram militants) are 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 posibilities cannot be ruled out which poses serious obstacles within the forest.
"The insurgents use their basess in the Sambisa Forest to launch deadly attacks and make quick retreat to their base which enables them to capture and take over control of all the LGA's bordering Nigeria with Cameroon, Chad and Niger thus effectively cutting off the three countries thereby declaring what they assumed was their independent territory (Caliphate).