Dapchi Girls, politics and the price of insurgency

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By Morenike Taire
Different media organizations have from within and outside the country, bandied different figures on the number of schoolgirls that had been released of the 110 abducted February 19   by suspected Boko Haram insurgents; from Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, Yobe state. Finally, most have settled on 101.

Cross section of the lucky girls singing the national anthem during a Presidential receptiopn for the Dapchi girls at the State House, Press Centre, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida

As most of the nation rejoices, it has been impossible to overlook such confusions, which have over the years proved fodder for conspiracy theorists who are convinced both the Dapchi and Chibok episodes are politically driven.

Needless to say even the very phenomenon of insurgency itself is innately political. Terrorism has always existed all…



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