by Chi Ibe

Today, Yakubu Nkeki, the head of the Chibok Abducted Girls Parents group, told the AFP that the girl, Sarah Luka, rescued yesterday is not one of the 219 missing Chibok girls, as the army claimed yesterday.

First, he said, his records showed only two girls with the surname Luka. “These are Kauna Luka Yana and Naomi Luka Dzakwa. Among the list of parents we have only four priests and none of them is Luka,” he said.

But speaking to Premium Times today, the army, through its spokesperson Sani Usman, the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, said the army stands by its statement, accusing those who say different of having a “political agenda”.

According tho him, the army verified all details Luka provided after she was found.

“The facts speak for themselves that that girl came from Adamawa and, beyond all reasonable doubt, she is amongst those that were abducted on the 14th of April 2014 in Government Secondary School, Chibok,” he said. “For anybody to wake up and say he’s the head of Chibok community and the girl was not amongst those kidnapped is wrong. If the principal of that school comes out and say ‘this is my nominal role and I don’t have such student’ then we can be debating the matter.”

“She is not from Chibok but Adamawa and she may not have been on any of the unofficial lists that said they were 249 girls or 219 girls, but she was kidnapped and we have all the facts.”

He said the army is right or “otherwise we won’t release the news to the whole world”, and asked accusers to “leave the Army out of this politics”.

YWriter