by ‘Jola Sotubo

A grim picture has been painted about the continued detention of the over 200 girls abducted from Borno as former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that some of them may never come back.

Obasanjo is said to have stated this during an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The former president also added that he had offered to approach the sect to broker the girls’ release but the government was yet to give him the go-ahead.

The schoolgirls were kidnapped on April 14 from Chibok in Borno and have now been in captivity for 2 months.

Punch reports:

Obasanjo,in the interview, said he had a communication link with the sect, expressing the fears that the more than 200 abducted girls might never return again. He said the terror group might release some of the girls that might be pregnant and finding it difficult to cater for the babies in the forest.

He noted that the girls might have been divided into groups and not likely to be at the same location.

The former President said, “I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing about them many years from now. Some will give birth, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they may be released.”