The Federal government has confirmed that 110 schoolgirls of the Government Girls Technical School Dapchi, Yobe State, were unaccounted for in the Boko Haram attack on the school last Monday.
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to newsmen in Damaturu after a meeting between a the Federal government delegation, Yobe government, security agencies, community leaders and parents of the missing schoolgirls.
“It was a meeting between stakeholders to get a first hand information and, out of the total register of 906 students in school that day, 110 students are unaccounted for,” he said.
The minister said far reaching decisions were reached at the meeting, including the deployment of police and Civil Defence Corps to all schools.
He said security agencies are synergizing to ensure the rescue of every student abducted by the insurgents.
“No stone will be left unturned in our determination to rescue these girls”, the minister assured.
He said the Federal, state governments and parents would cooperate with security agents to work towards successful rescue of the students.
Mohammed reiterated that the insurgents are being contained and now looking for soft targets.
“Government will remain focused and resolute in the fight against insurgency to rescue the students and every Nigerian in their custody,” he added.
Residents of Dapchi town in Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State had said that dozens of schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, were abducted by insurgents who stormed the town Monday evening with heavy gunfire.