RESCUED GIRLS NOT FROM CHIBOK - ARMY

Girls rescued from Boko Haram terror camps in Sambisa Forest on Tuesday are “not the Chibok girls,” Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said.

However, one official did not rule out that captives from other Boko Haram camps that were raided might include some of the 200 girls abducted in April 2014 from a school in Chibok.
Nigerian troops rescued 200 girls and 93 women Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest in the northeastern part of the country, the Nigerian Armed Forces announced on its official Twitter account. The forest is a stronghold for the militant Boko Haram group and is not far from Chibok.
Military spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said the rescued girls and women are still being screened and none has spoken to their families yet.
The 2014 mass abduction from Chibok led to an international social media movement, ‪#‎BringBackOurGirls‬, to rescue them. Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, has been kidnapping females for years and has hundreds in their custody.
The Tokumbere, Sassa and Tlafa terror camps were raided and destroyed, said a source close to the military. The Tokumbere camp is the most notorious, where the training of small children by Boko Haram is said to have occurred, the source said. Boko Haram terrorists were killed in the operation, but the military did not say how many.
In recent weeks, Nigerian troops and vigilantes moved into the Sambisa Forest. Last Wednesday the troops had to retreat because of explosive devices Boko Haram planted in the forest, according to military sources and a vigilante who was with the troops.
On Monday, troops re-entered the forest and on Tuesday afternoon they raided Boko Haram camps and rescued scores of girls and women.
“We stumbled on the girls and may find more,” Usman said.
Information about the fate of the kidnapped schoolgirls has been spotty and inconsistent, with some school officials giving conflicting figures for the number of girls who were abducted or escaped their captors.
“We have no idea where the Chibok girls are or were,” CNN correspondent Christian Purefoy said Tuesday.
Culled from CNN
Amaechi, APC Plotting To Stop Wike’s Swearing In, PDP Alleges
Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the state Governor, Chibuike Amaechi and the All Progressives Congress (APC) were plotting to secure a court injunction to stop the swearing in of the Governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike, on May 29.
The party made the allegation yesterday, in a statement issued by its Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of Wike Campaign Organisation, Emma Okah.
Okah alleged that Amaechi and APC had plotted to get the injunction from a court in Awka, Anambra State, against the May 29, 2015, swearing in of Wike.
According to Okah, “the plot was to shop for and buy a judge outside Rivers State, who will agree to do the dirty job since the judiciary in the state has been paralysed by the Amaechi administration.”
The PDP further accused Governor Amaechi and APC of “leaving no stone unturned in planning to carry out the governor’s threat that he will not handover to Chief Wike.”
The party had appealed to Rivers people to remain calm, assuring that the governor-elect would be sworn in on May 29, like his colleagues in other states.
“However, in the face of this provocation, the PDP urges the people of Rivers State to remain calm, as their Governor-elect will be sworn-in on May 29, 2015, as ordained by God, like his colleagues in other States.
“The wish of the enemies of Rivers people to cause constitutional crisis and chaos is not the wish of God for Rivers State”, Okah said.