TRUTH BY Charles Novia

Charles Novia
I THINK THERE ARE NO MISSING 234 CHIBOK GIRLS

I have been having a nagging feeling for days now since this Chibok Abduction Saga. And understandably so too. I think out of the box. I'm trained to think according to Logic. If it is not logical, it becomes a puzzle. If it becomes a puzzle; then one has to solve it or ask questions which would aid in solving it.

I have reviewed the press reports of the kidnappings. I have watched interviews. I have studied Body Language of those in government and those in opposition. I have MOST IMPORTANTLY traveled to Abuja to independently snoop around for answers. No one send me o but I pride myself in being an investigative journalist by night instead of a blood-sucking vampire.

After my initial examination of the body of evidence so far, I am sorry to say this. I BELIEVE this Chibok Abduction is not what it seems. It has been politicised. It is a plan from the pit of hell, maybe. And we all fell for it.

Please, read the next few lines I am going to write very carefully and see from my point of view for a minute.

I sat down this morning with a top security agent in Abuja and another member of the administration to ask these questions. I probed and probed and this is what came out to me.

1. The initial reports that over a hundred young school girls were abducted while sitting for their WAEC and 53 escaped while about 50 were still unaccounted for might have been true but the figures greatly exxagerated. According to the reports of the Girls I read in the papers, they said the Boko Haram insurgents came in 3 or 4 Hilux vans. 4 Hilux vans cannot in anyway contain 234 or more Girls. Go figure.

2. Reports say that the school in Chibok was a WAEC Centre for exams and that over 500 MIXED students, Boys and Girls, were sitting for the Exams. Boko Haram, true to type, would never go to a school and not leave a destruction of blood and death behind. Remember their murder of the Federal Government College Boys? In this case; in Chibok, the BH insurgents reportedly went to the school and just abducted only girls without even killing any of the boys ( and I'm not justifying that BH should have killed anyone. Just hypothesising here). So, what happened to the boys? Why have we not heard from them till today and why has any not given account of their sides of the story?

3. The Principal of the secondary school should be interrogated more. I can confidently say she is a suspect in this case; if it boils down to a sexed-up tale. She cannot give an accurate number of the students in the school who sat for the exams? Strange. She gleefully addressed Press Conferences at the initial stage increasing the figures of the abducted from 70 or so to 234! How did she arrive at those figures?

4. Where are the parents of those missing 234? We have only seen less than 15 being interviewed. No other has come out. Strange. There is a plot somewhere.

5. Those women who called themselves Chibok Mothers and protested in Abuja last week might not have been the mothers of the children. I suspect about 20 or 30 of the Chibok Girls were really kidnapped and not 234. Those who went to Abuja to protest might have been playing out a bigger script. Either genuinely crying for the doubtful number of girls kidnapped or just part of a huge conspiracy plot?

6. The escaped Girls, 53 of them as reported, have not been seen. Only two or five gave interviews to Punch Newspapers. Their story had inconsistencies. They escaped into the forest? Granted that they did, how come less than five have been talking? Who's shielding the others from talking?

7. I believe some Girls were kidnapped. I do not believe the number is up to 234. Realistically, the number should be about 20 or 30 and we must sustain the clamour for their release. But I also believe that some political elements in the North might have taken advantage of these kidnappings to falsify the numbers so as to embarass the government and the country. My gut feeling. There are no 234 Girls missing. I do not believe that. This is cheap and pure blackmail.

8. Yes, Abu Shekau said he has the Girls. But he might have a lesser number in his hands than 234 and just played to the gallery for grandstanding. Terrorists love attention. And this case of political oppurtunism played right into Shekau's hands. My feeling.

9. The pattern of these attacks and kidnappings should be studied. To me, they are meant to distract world attention from Nigeria's potential as an Economic Power especially as we are hosting the WEF in Abuja. They succeeded on that front because Nigeria is being weighed on its security issues alongside its economic potentials.

10. It is good that America has sent operatives to forensically examine the kidnappings. Perhaps the real story would come out. As at last night, a special Ops investigative team from America was in the country. I think after this; the whole truth will come out.

11. This is my personal hypothesis. No one has to agree with me. I am asking questions and making deductions where no one so far has really been able to assertively. Please I state here again that I believe some girls must have been kidnapped but I don't believe its up to 234. I support calls that those kidnapped must be brought back.

12. If this is a plot by diabolical agents of destabilization, then they must be tracked and brought to justice.

13. I call on President Jonathan to sit up and guarantee our National Security. He's too laid back on those issues and if my conspiracy theory is right, then he must share in the blame for not being pro-active in the first place. If this whole issue is being politicised, it means his opponents see somehow that he doesn't have the strong balls to tackle them. Enough of cotton balls, Sir. Show us balls of steel.

14. I write this as a patriotic citizen, tired of this whole shit. Playing politics with our lives is evil. Whoever the sponsors of terror are, whoever their partners are in and out of government should stop this shit!

15. I am not afraid. Truth is an open wound. Only conscience can heal it.