Dead or Alive? This is one inquiry numerous Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike will request a response to in the days and even a long time ahead as they consider the destiny of the 113 Chibok schoolgirls left in Boko Haram bondage.
The crisp debate over the missing young ladies was started yesterday, unexpectedly, the fourth commemoration of their snatching, by a Nigerian columnist with connections to the fear organization.
Ahmad Salkida, who had been reached in the past by government to help in arranging the arrival of the young ladies, said just 15 of them are as yet alive.
Salkida, in a progression of tweets, said his examinations spreading over three months demonstrated that a large number of the young ladies kicked the bucket from cross flames and bombardments of the security powers that were expected to safeguard them.
"I lament to state here that exclusive 15 out of the 113 #Chibokgirls are alive today, in view of my examinations over the most recent three months," he said.
He said even the 15 have been offered.
The Defense Headquarters, which is co-ordinating a military activity to safeguard the young ladies and stifle Boko Haram said yesterday it didn't trust Salkida's claim.
Brigadier General John Agim, the representative for the DHQ said the report was intended to demoralize the administration from protecting the young ladies.
Salkida said kidnapping was not on the plan of the Boko Haram guerillas when they set foot on Chibok on that game changing day in 2014.
His words: "Four years prior, a center positioning BH officer drove many contenders looking for sustenance and different supplies in the remote town of Chibok. Like a bit of hindsight, they saw an opportunity to snatch school young ladies in GSS Chibok. The young ladies at the time were getting ready for their exams.
"The many BH warriors confronted no resistance amid the kidnapping, as they attempted to pass on their prisoners to the backwoods of Alagarno, the extremists' first war capital, which they named Timbuktu. It was in Timbuktu that they sorted out the greater part of the loathsomeness we encounter today.
"A portion of the young ladies were fortunate to have gotten away on their approach to Timbuktu that night, on the grounds that there were less warriors to hold in excess of 200 young ladies. Toward the starting, the gathering didn't realize what to do with the young ladies, at any rate, not in the first month of their bondage.
"In any case, what numerous individuals did not know was that two weeks into the kidnapping, the Jonathan organization was at that point in contact with me for the serene arrival of the young ladies. Incidentally, I was in self-oust after weight from a similar government.
"I took a reason where I was completing a modest activity in the UAE (yet at the same time revealing the rebellion), to see the president, which was encouraged by Aliyu Gebi and Labaran Maku. By the third of May, I was at that point on my way from Abuja to Madagali, Marwa lastly to a BH camp.
"I got a proof of life for the president and another for the media on the off chance that I didn't get back. The requests of BH at that point were straightforward: they needed kept individuals taken to Damaturu and they will move the young ladies to Buniyardi for swap some place in the middle. There was no word on recover.
"I was furnished with full military escorts from Abuja to Damaturu. Government should ensure that 70 prisoners were prepared on my entry in Damaturu to meet 30 there. Whatever is left of the arranging group was in Abuja ensuring the detainees were on a plane before my entry.
"On landing in Damaturu, the military authority there was not informed about my work. He was simply advised to expect a VIP? Around then, the young ladies had been moved by Boko Haram, yet there was no detainees for trade and I got a call from the previous CDS (head of guard staff) to prematurely end the task.
"The president later said before me that he didn't cancel the swap. There was a tenable window, yet zero will to save the young ladies. BH were irate. I came back to the UAE to proceed with my hustle, however got solicitations by the previous organization, as well as the present government.
"Four out of five procedures that I was engaged with, we approached a swap bargain, however government, in many cases, did not furnish the stage I gave the required ability. What's more, at whatever point government dawdled, Shekau would move the objective post.
"I proceeded with my giving an account of the emergency, frequently reproachful of government and BH, with the two sides raising concerns. For me, I am a correspondent before whatever else. Numerous authorities consider me as some person who was excessively free disapproved for a procedure that should be covered in mystery.
"Government started to search for other options to finish up what I had begun and my previous messengers ventured in as the essential 'mediators.' It was a break for me since it is never again arrangements, however unimportant exchange. Another reason was my request that the procedure must be trained
"I was a prickle in the substance of our pioneers with my counter claims of authority accounts. A day after I solely discharged a video of the young ladies, something I had v done before, I was announced needed by same military that furnished me with escorts and military air ship for assignments.\
" I was flabbergasted to learn later that the terms that saw the arrival of a portion of the young ladies was troublesome than what I exhibited, however as my companion will state, regardless of whether we think of a cure for growth, the war economy and elites would preferably kick the bucket than acknowledge a cure from a talaka.
"Today, my meticulous examinations on the #Chibokschoolgirls uncovered that only a modest bunch of the 113 #ChibokGirls are alive. A significant number of the young ladies have passed on because of cross flames and bombardments of the security powers that no uncertainty were determined to saving them.
" I lament to state here that lone 15 out of the 113 #Chibokgirls are alive today, in light of my examinations over the most recent 3 months and we have just observed some of them in a video, which I only acquired and was distributed on SR site.
"What is the status of the rest of the 15 young ladies to the extent arrangements are concerned? My examinations likewise uncovered that, they are not any more under the control of #AbubakarShekau. As indicated by sources, they are currently 'hitched' and just their 'spouses' can choose their destinies.
" If they are separated or the men are slaughtered that is the point at which Shekau's choice outweighs everything else, and in this case, since the young ladies have been inculcated, their pioneer has no privilege to consult for their discharge, regardless of the payoff offered, dependable different sources said.
"It will be horrendous to share the names of the 15 that are alive here. This is the obligation of government. When I was included I consistently gave verification of life. Government must request that to demonstrate me wrong or quit consulting for a large number of the young ladies that don't exist.
"The mystery around the state of the #ChibokGirls and latest #DapchiGirls catastrophe by those included is the reason individuals like me are good and gone. The reality remains that under the current conditions there is NO space for peace settlement.
"The exit plan for these young ladies, is a military safeguard or consult with singular captors to discharge their 'spouses' as a byproduct or the like of arrangement, yet this will mean demise to these warriors on the grounds that the fear amass now observes the young ladies as their very own major aspect and must be ensured.
"Why there is almost no data about the young ladies and both the guardians and campaigners are oblivious? Since government opposes autonomous announcing of the emergency, a large portion of the reports are arranged and Nigerians are additionally not prepared to hear reality or remain by it.
"I've taken a chance with my life and that of my family previously and even now, to recount the story, as well as to assume the part of an arbiter and certainty discoverer. Be that as it may, when the FG discovered choices, my penances got an official mocking and I am being harassed.
"I hold no other expectation of doing this than the need to blend a civil argument to request more bits of knowledge and convey conclusion to the guardians. The country must not come up short you from protecting your girls and furthermore neglect to disclose to you reality.
"My sincere sympathies to the guardians of the close to 100 that have died or have not returned home and obviously not with their captors. In any case, you should recall forget that your little girls were more grounded than whatever is left of us that couldn't accomplish more to turn away this fiasco."
Administration: We don't know about Salkida's claim
Responding, the previous evening to Salkida's cases on the Chibok young ladies, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, yesterday said the Presidency didn't know that exclusive 15 out of the rest of the Chibok young ladies are as yet alive.
Shehu said in an announcement in Abuja that no such data had ever originated from Boko Haram or the universal middle people who are working with the legislature.
He stated: "We wish to affirm that Mr. Salkida isn't required, for the benefit of the Nigerian government in the procedures prompting the arrival of the more than 100 Chibok young ladies that have come back to their families, so far , and isn't engaged with the present procedures to secure the arrival of those still held in bondage.
"In the event that there is any data he has concerning the rest of those young ladies, he has, up till this minute not moved toward the administration of Nigeria with it. All press enquirers regarding the matter ought to subsequently be coordinated to Mr. Salkida.
"The certainties as known to our authorities and the universal contacts helping this procedure are that the rest of the Chibok young ladies are there and we are not yielding on getting their discharge.
"As expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, the administration isn't yielding. We will proceed to endure, and the guardians ought to please not surrender. They are likewise prompted not to lose confidence in this present government's capacity to satisfy its guarantee that the young ladies won't be deserted or overlooked."
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