Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri April 22, 2018
One of the parents of 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state was killed on Saturday in an auto crash at Hong, Adamawa state. The schoolgirls were abducted at Government Secondary School, Chibok on Tuesday, April 14, 2014. Fifty six girls however escaped, while they were being driven in trucks to Sambisa Forest on that fateful night. Even though the cause of accident was yet to be ascertained, 17 other parents were also injured and taken to hospital for treatment. Yohanna Mark, an eyewitness at Hong town disclosed that the parents were traveling to America University of Nigerian (AUN) to visit their daughters. The loss of this parent brings to 18 the total number of parents and guardians that died; four years after some of their daughters were abducted and released by Boko Haram in the last two years. “One of the parents was killed and 17 others injured on this Yola-Hong road on Saturday,” said Yohanna Mark yesterday in a telephone interview.
