CHIBOK GIRLS:VICE PRINCIPAL OF SCHOOL FINGERED IN KIDNAPP

Parents of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok have fingered the vice principal (academic) of the school as a prime suspect in their kidnap, reports newswirengr. A mother of one of the abducted girls, Mariam Abubakar, stated that Vice Principal Yerima Banjiri had told the school girls that any one of them who failed to sleep in the school the night of the abduction would be expelled as a student of Government Girls Secondary School Chibok.

According to her, “A week before their abductions, Malam Yerima threatened the students not to leave for their various homes. He said that whoever went home should forget she was ever a student at the school. He told the girls that none of them should go home, that they must sleep in the school. However, none of the teachers’ daughters or even the daughters of the management staff was among those kidnapped. Only the children of the poor people were asked to sleep in the school. The teachers and administrators had kept their children in safer places before Boko Haram arrived.”
The distraught mother accused the vice president and possibly other staff of conniving with Boko Haram. “Our concern is that since the day of [the girls’] abduction, we have never set our eyes on Malam Yerima. He is on run,” Ms Abubakar said.