The parents of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents said that the kidnappers who came to the community to return the girls without any resistance by the military preached to them.
The community was so excited as they believed Buhari had come through for them after promising the return of the girls after his visit there last week.
Premium Times reports that the parents of the girls were overjoyed with one resident saying; “It was a thing of joy for us in Dapchi when suddenly we began to see trucks moving into the town at about 8:00 a.m in the morning
“They brought the girls and then they were telling the general public that they should not go back to Western education schools; that what they did was not terrorism but rather the propagation of Islamic knowledge,”
Kachalla Bukar, who is the secretary of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls’ parents’ group said he was called and told that the insurgents were coming with the girls which initially caused fear. He said, however, that he waited and was also polite to the insurgents.
“But we, the parents of the missing girls, did not run as other villagers did, because we cannot run and leave our girls in the hands of the Boko Haram.” he said
“When they came, they told us that they were returning the girls not because somebody gave them money, but out of their freewill. We thanked them. Then they told us that we must never return our girls to western school again; we said we will do as said. They preached to us for some time, and we said we will heed to their sermons.
“They shook our hands and asked us to forgive them for whatever pains that they might have caused us; then we shook hands and they asked us to snap photos with them using their mobile phone which we all did.”