Abducted Chibok Girls Pregnant

It’s disheartening, that is, to say the list that abducted Chibok girls have been ferried out of the shores of Nigeria to Chad and Cameroun where they have been reported to be forcefully married off by their captors, the sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an elder told our correspondent yesterday.
Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum said the abducted Chibok girls have been married off by their captors before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake to Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants.
He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram members who took them from their school and who had assumed “ownership” of the students.
Read the culled report after the cut:

“They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads,” Bitrus said.
“The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.”
Following their abduction, the schoolgirls were thought to be first taken to the Boko Haram camps in the notorious Sambisa Forest. Reports later said villagers had seen the girls being conveyed in trucks to other locations.
Bitrus said yesterday: “So many sources have informed us that the girls have been taken to Cameroon. Many villagers said they saw the girls being transported in trucks and then in canoes.
“On Sunday they were taken to Dikwa area where they (Boko Haram) have a camp there. From there they took them to Marte, then Monguno before they were finally ferried in canoes. It was yesterday we got this latest report of them being married off to the insurgents by their captors.”
With Bitrus fighting to control the surge of tears that was begging to be let go, he said: “The military was alerted promptly. About two weeks ago when some villagers saw many of the girls being transported in trucks, some with even their school uniforms. The villagers tried calling the senator representing the zone but they couldn’t get him so they went to Bama barracks where they reported the matter.
“At the Bama barracks they were told that they must put it in writing, that that is the military tradition. At that time if the military had intervened they would have stopped them from reaching their destination. “And the fact that for nearly two weeks we have been talking about this and nothing is being done, then there are questions we have to ask. Nobody did anything.”
Finally Bitrus began sobbing as he spoke to our reporters yesterday. The emotions were over him as he continued the tale:
“What is happening with the Nigerian nation? I think we demand some answers. Today it is happening to these unfortunate girls from Chibok, tomorrow it may be somewhere else and that is why all Nigerians must rally around us on this,” he said.
“If these captors are trying to achieve a political point, I think the best thing is for us to try to make sure that they don’t succeed but from all indications they are succeeding due to inaction of government. It is helping these people in achieving their objectives. If The Boko Haram sect have successfully married these girls for such a token as N2,000, what is more, the girls may as well be pregnant for them by now.”
Bitrus spoke to the BBC Hausa radio in the early hours of yesterday, saying, “parents of these girls have been angry that despite the existence of government, there has not been concrete effort from government on the matter. “Female parents have been crying day and night, because nobody knows what government is doing about the whole issue. All that we read in the papers is that Nigerian Army have done this or that.”
The Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade who spoke on the claims of Bitrus said, “The concern and anxiety from all quarters is quite understandable. Please be assured that as much as the forces may not disclose details of action being taken to secure the freedom of the girls, every information received on the subject is duly analyzed and acted upon as necessary. “No information is being ignored in the concerted effort to ensure the safety and freedom of the girls. Just pray for the successful outcome of all efforts please.”