More on the 100+ schoolgirls abducted by the despicable Boko Haram

The news yesterday that almost all the girls were "freed" gave the impression that the Nigerian authorities (well known for their inefficiency) had actually managed to do something useful for once.  Not so.  We can continue to hold the very low opinion that we rightly have, at least those of us who speak our mind,  of most of these African countries rife with inefficient police forces and a military apparatus filled to the brim with corrupt people and politicians equally corrupt ... from the very highest office to the lowest peon.



From BusinessWeek:
....The principal of the Nigerian school  in the northeastern state of Borno where more than 100 girls were abducted said military claims that the majority were free are untrue.

Only 14 out of 129 students gunmen abducted on April 14 have escaped, Asabe Kwambura, the principal of the state-run girls secondary school in Chibok, said by phone today. Yahaya Chibok, the managing director of Borno Urban Development Board, also said by phone that 14 students were free. The military said in a statement yesterday that eight were still missing.
“There is no truth to the announcement of the military of freeing 121 students,” said Kwambura. “It’s only the 14 announced by Governor Kashim Shettima that we have seen,” she said, referring to the Borno state governor. Major-General Chris Olukolade, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said by phone today that Kwambura told the military yesterday that only eight students were still missing.
“I feel bad that the military is trying to implicate me,” Kwambura said when asked about the statement the military attributed to her.

Kwambura said someone she believed to be from the military called her yesterday asking about the number of girls abducted and those freed. She said she couldn’t say for sure how many were kidnapped but that 14 were free.....