Dapchi Schoolgirls May Return Home To Their Parents Next Week – Defence Minister

The recently abducted Dapchi schoolgirls will soon be rescued and returned to their parents, according to the Nigerian government.

This was disclosed on Saturday by the minister of defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, during an interview on Dateline Abuja, a Channels Television’s programme.

He said the rescue operation is already on though he did not give a particular time it would take place. Instead, he said:

“It can be earlier; maybe a week, it can be two weeks, but we are on it, and I’m telling you with all sense of sincerity that we are closing in on them”.

“We have dispatched all the surveillance devices we have in terms of air, human resource, intelligence, and other forces that needed to be in place by all possible means and we have made sure that all that’s needed is being done to see that these girls are being found, wherever they are.”

A faction of Boko Haram is believed to have kidnapped about 110 students of Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, in Yobe State on February 19.