OBJ Claims Contact with B. Haram, Raises Alarm over Abducted Girls

Olusegun Obasanjo, former president has disclosed that some of the school girls abducted in Chibok, Borno state by Boko haram sect in April 2014 may never return to their family.

He also claimed he could reach out to the more than 200 schoolgirls, but regretted that the federal government had yet to give him the green light to act.

Obasanjo who stated this on Thursday in an interview on the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), added that the insurgents might free those found   to be pregnant or have given birth.

“I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing about them many years from now. Some will give birth, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they may be released.” He said

The former president said the terror group might release some of the girls that might be pregnant and finding it difficult to cater for the babies in the forest.

Obasanjo however said that the girls might have been divided into groups and not likely to be at the same location.

hat the girls might have been separated and kept in different locations.

Obasanjo had   previously tried to negotiate with the insurgents, especially in September 2011 after members of the sect bombed the United Nations headquarters in Abuja.

He flew to  Maiduguri, Borno State where he met with relatives of the   Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, who the police had illegally killed in their custody in 2009.