Shettima offers N50 million reward for kidnapped female students

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Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima, speaks to the Associated Press during an interview at the Government house in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Sept, 28. 2011. Security forces arrested a top commander of a radical Muslim sect who ordered killings in the northeastern city where the group's mosque once stood, bringing a new calm to the restive region, a governor said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has said his government would pay N50 million to anyone that could provide information leading to the freedom of the abducted female students in Borno.

Speaking to newsmen in Maiduguri earlier this morning the Governor also disclosed that 10 of the captured girls had escaped their captors when one of the lorries conveying them broke down.

Governor Shettima added, “The commissioner of education has been in constant touch with the school and the people of the town. I have also been speaking to the principal and the district head of Chibok on hourly basis.”

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