French news medium, Jeune Afrique
has said that the Kidnapped Chibok girls have been seen in Troubled Central
African Republic with armed men. They said the girls where seen with Armed men
in Birao, Birao is a small village in the north of CAR.
The French report was translated by
Punch reporters and it states that: “The Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko
Haram have passed through the northern CAR, escorted by armed men. Based on
several testimonies of inhabitants, the women arrived Wednesday, April 30
aboard trucks. “They were guarded by heavily armed men, who spoke English, and
also members of the former (CAR) rebel Seleka.” Seleka is an Islamic rebel
militia that took over the CAR government last year and has put their leader as
President. The group has been carrying out several executions, rape and
looting, making France send more troops to the troubled area.
The French paper continued: “According
to our source, the convoy of two trucks and a pickup was previously seen at
Tiroungoulou (about 170 kilometres southwest of Birao) and perhaps Chad. “Upon
arrival, some were frightened, cried and were violently rebuked in English. The
girls and their guardians were then housed for several days in a house. “The
group reportedly left the scene on the night of Sunday to Monday, May 4 to 5,
without a trace,” the report said.
Meanwhile the Cameroonian government
has denied reports that most of the girls where married off in the country.
Cameroon’s Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakari, said: “We insist
that allegations from Nigeria that a part of the 200 young female students
recently kidnapped in the North-East of Nigeria would have been transferred to
Cameroon to be forced into marriage to members of the Boko Haram sect are fully
unfounded. “Cameroon will never ever serve as a support base for
destabilisation activities towards other countries,” he said.
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