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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