Military sources has said that apart from abducting the girls, the
insurgents also carted away food items and vehicles as well as killing
undisclosed number of people in Chibok on the fateful night.
The
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.
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