How Boko Haram Kidnapped The Secondary School Girls In Chibok, Borno State, Escaped Girl Tells The Story

More than four weeks after hundreds of school girls were abducted by gunmen at the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, more facts are beginning to emerge on how the gun-wielding terrorists perpetrated the attack.

In a latest investigation carried out by CNN, one of the kidnapped girls who escaped from the Boko Haram insurgents into the forest on that fateful night has revealed that the militants initially promised to protect them when they arrived their school compound but only for them to discover later that they came to kidnap them.

The unnamed teenager stated that they realised that the gunmen were unfriendly elements when they started burning their school buildings while they (girls) were gathered inside cargo trucks.

Commenting on how they managed to escape from the terrorists, the teenager said: "We would rather die than go," one of the girls told CNN.

"We ran into the bush. We ran and we ran."

* A CNN reporter, left, and the unnamed school girl in Chibok, Borno State 

With fear in her eyes and voice, the young woman, who asked not to be identified, described how she and some of her friends that escaped made the long, dangerous trip to her village.

She said they saw something on fire and headed in that direction, presuming it was building in the village that had been set ablaze. 

The girl, who  was still shaken up by the events, when asked to describe what her kidnappers wore, she responded: "I feel afraid."

She added that if her school is re-opened, she wouldn't go back. 

It was gathered from residents in the village that news began to spread before the militants made it into Chibok last month.

They stated that some villagers began to receive cell phone calls that the feared extremist group Boko Haram was on the way.

No one knew what the attack would entail, that it would mean hundreds of schoolgirls plucked from their beds by a group of extremists who would later threaten to sell them.

"It's like they were coming for a shopping trip," a villager who witnessed the attack told CNN.

Officials have said that Boko Haram militants abducted 276 girls from the boarding school on April 14.

Villagers said they passed along warnings to local police that the terrorists were on their way that night. They said they received phone calls from family and friends from surrounding villages and were told that there was a convoy of cargo trucks, pickups and motorcycles heading their way.

One villager said he was told, "They are coming for you. Run!"

The villagers said police called for reinforcements, but none came. Everyone, including the police, fled into the bush during the attack. But the girls were asleep in their dorms.

The stories appear to confirm an Amnesty International report that the government couldn't put together enough troops to head off the attack. 

Source: Legit.ng