The Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, has disclosed that the Dapchi girls did not take a bathe throughout their stay in captivity, which was one month and two days.
Daura disclosed this while presenting the girls to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.
The girls were abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19 and returned on March 21.
The DSS DG informed the president that the girls have all been medically examined and only four were found to have broken their limbs.
He said that the four had been treated.
Daura said, “On release, the victims were taken into the DSS medical facility and are put through programmes to give them mental stability.
“As such, they are given psychological mental evaluation conducted by trained specialists. About four who were discovered to have broken limbs and were sent for X-ray.
“Almost all of them had one skin infection or the other having not taken bath for over a month. They have been medically examined, and those with ailments were treated The measures are to ensure that they are in good health.”