Yesterday, there were indications that the 230 female
students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the
Government Girls' Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok,
Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa Forest in
Borno State, by the Special Forces of the United States
Marines.
This was even as more US military officials arrived
Nigeria yesterday to join local officials in the search
while the UK team had earlier arrived in Abuja to
support Nigerian government in its response to the
abduction of over 200 school girls.
Sources told Saturday Vanguard in Abuja that
members of the United States Marines who are already
in Maiduguri following the promise by President Barak
Obama to assist Nigeria in rescuing the abducted girls,
located the girls inside the forest, using some Satellite
equipment which combed the forest, located an
assembly of the young girls and sent the images back
to the Marines on ground in Maiduguri.
Aside locating the whereabouts of the girls in the
dense forest, it was also, further gathered that one of
the leaders of terrorist group who participated in the
abduction of the girls was arrested by a combined
team of the US Marines and Nigerian forces.
Sources said that the Boko Haram leader was arrested,
through an advanced interceptor equipment which was
used to track the terrorist while exchanging
information with his colleagues in Sambisa Forest
about the movements of American and Nigerian
soldiers in Maiduguri.
His phone was subsequently traced to a location in
Maiduguri where he was arrested and handed over to
the Nigerian military.
The location of the girls in the forest is contrary to
widespread reports that the girls had been distributed
and ferried to the Nigerian border towns in Chad,
Cameroon and Niger Republic.
Senator Ahmed Zanna, representing Borno Central
District in whose Maiduguri home, an alleged Boko
Haram top commander was once arrested told the
Senate last week that he gave the Military an up-to-
date information on how the girls could be rescued,
but lamented that his information was largely ignored.
He spoke against the backdrop of the claim by the
Boko Haram leader, Sheik Abubakar Shekau, last week
that the girls were booties of war, who would be sold
into slavery.
