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100 days after, Chibok girls still in Shekau’s captivity
The world continues to await the safe return of the over 200 pupils of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, 100 days after they were kidnapped by the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.100 days after, Chibok girls still in Shekau’s captivity.On April 15, 2014, Nigerians and, indeed, the rest of the world, woke up in the morning to the heart-breaking news of the kidnap of over 200 pupils of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a predominantly Christian community in Borno State. Eye witness accounts said the kidnappers, who were not immediately suspected to be members of the murderous Islamic sect known as Boko Haram, had arrived in the premises of the school in trucks and pretended to be on a mission to protect the girls. Reports claimed that many of the pupils were writing the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination when the intruders came and most of them were taken away into the Sambisa forest – now notorious for providing shelter to Boko Haram and other unspe
