We Know Where Chibok Girls are - The Chief of Defence Staff

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, in Abuja, on Monday, said the military now knows where the abducted schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, are,  adding that the military will not use force in the rescue operation.

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

Badeh disclosed this while speaking to members of the Citizen Initiative for Security Awareness (CISA), a non-government organisation, who were on solidarity campaign to the Defence Headquarters.

“The good news for the parents of the girls is that we now know where they are, but we cannot tell you, we cannot come and tell you the secret. Just leave us alone, we are working to get the girls back.
“I can tell  you our military can do it, but where they are held, can we go with force? Nobody should say Nigerian military does not know what it is doing. We can’t kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back. So we are working, the president has empowered us to do the work,” he said.

Badeh said the fight against insurgency was quite different from full scale war, adding that “if we are fighting an external war, they would have been begging us to withdraw.”

According to the CDS, the Nigerian military had proved its worth in the civil war in Liberia and Sierra-Leone, lamenting that in the North-East, the military was fighting its fellow brothers.