Missing Nigerian School Girls Located
The army however fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s Chief of Defense said.
Air Marshall Alex Barde was quoted telling demonstrators “We can’t go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back.”
He however expressed confidence that the Nigerian army could get the girls back.
Barde refused to reveal the location of the girls.
Boko Haram abducted more than 300 hundred girls from a boarding school in the town of Chibok on April 15.
The militia has continued engaging in other acts of terror that have resulted in the deaths of more than 470 civilians
The terror group has engaged in acts of violence in their campaign for an Islamic state prompting President Goodluck Jonathan to brand them as "Al-Qaeda of West Africa.”
By: Cecilia Garama
Source: Al Jazeera
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