By Just In! Nigerian Military Hires Fishermen, Farmers To Search For Missing Dapchi School Girls
Fresh reports has it that the Nigeria Military has employed the services of local fishermen and farmers to go in search for the Dapchi School Girls abducted by terrorist group, boko haram.
This development was on Tuesday night confirmed by the Head of Counter-Insurgency Operation in North East (Operation Lafiya Dole), Major General Rogers Nicholas. He made this known while speaking at the office complex at the newly established 171 Nigerian Air Force Detachment in Monguno town.
Maj-Gen Nicholas revealed that over 200 hours have been spent by craftmen combing the Theatre for the missing School Girls. He also added that the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar also came around to add value to the search as they also joined in going round the Theatre in search of the Schoolgirls.
He said: “What this means is that nobody is sitting down, sleeping over it. It means that the government is serious in rescuing these abducted girls. Primarily, that is why the NSA is here to see things for himself and add value to what we are doing.
“Having said that, the NSA has also introduced us to some locals, fishermen and farmers, who have very good knowledge of the terrain to work with us in terms of intelligence to contribute to the search efforts we are making.
“The Nigerian Air Force has been airborne since the last three days and we will also declare additional platforms to do this exercise. As I speak, many areas have been covered, over 200 hours have been spent flying, combing the whole Theatre in search of the girls.
“Additionally the ground force are there in various places searching in various places identified.”
