Major General Chris Olukolade, director of Defense Information for the Nigerian army, has rebuffed news reports today claiming that the Chibok schoolgirls were released. The below report, which comes from the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, claims buses said to be driving into Maimalari barracks in Borno State carrying the abducted girls were conveying "other individuals".
Read the release below after the cut:
Against the widespread news on a purported release of Chibok School Girls today, the Nigerian Defence Headquarters has refuted the report.
The Director Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade said that : "the story circulating in respect of the release of the Chibok girls is not true please."
He added that "The buses that drove into the barracks were conveying other individuals."
Meanwhile PRNigeria gathered that the Defence Headquarters may address the press this week on some recent developments in the counter-insurgency campaigns were many terrorists were killed and others captured by the Nigerian troops.
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