America Did Not Bring Back Our Girls, Despite New Book’s Claims, 10 Years Later

-International Human Rights Lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe Corrects Record on CIA’S ‘Chibok’ Abducted Schoolgirl Rescues

Seven International aid workers were killed in Gaza on Easter Monday. The world acknowledged it immediately. The UN Security Council had passed a ceasefire resolution a week before. Yet, although Boko Haram terrorists bombed the UN building in Nigeria in 2011 killing 25, including UN diplomats, they were not sanctioned till May 2014 – weeks after infamously abducting almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls.

And now, as the world’s attention has turned to the latest flashtag, Gaza, as it desperately should and must, almost 10 years  later, a new book credits the United States with recovering 30 girls, which it didn’t.

This titillating nugget was found in the book “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA” by Liza Mundy (Crown Books, October 2023):

“Her third posting was Nigeria, where in April 2014, 276 female students had been kidnapped from a Christian boarding school in Chibok by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram…Working with the British and French, they hoped to get all the girls in one fell swoop, but some had been married off to fighters and were reluctant or unable to leave their babies, at least not right away. But they did get thirty at one time, and others, in ones and twos, trickling, terrified, from the thick forest, clutching the offspring of the men they’d been given to” says the book about “Molly” a CIA operative.

As heartwarming as this sounds, and I truly want it to be true but there simply isn’t much support for the veracity of these claims.

 As a top global authority on the world’s longest-running mass abduction, we know the initial 2014 escapes of 57 schoolgirls documented by the Christian Association of Nigeria in Chibok in concert with ThisDay Newspapers and ex UK PM Gordon Brown; the miraculous escape of Amina Ali #127 in 2016 facilitated by her community’s youth volunteers as documented by my team and cited in the book  The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria (Paperback) and then there is the watershed work  Beneath the Tamarind Tree:

A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

By Isha Sesay ex-CNN anchor who witnessed firsthand the historic home return of the first batch of 21 girls ransomed in 2016 to Chibok fleetingly at Christmas.

But these numbers and timelines don’t add up with Molly’s CIA story. And it was a combination of the world’s elation at Amina Ali’s seismic resurrection from the depths and CNN’s Buhari regime-shaming world exclusive proof of life video that forced the freedom of 21 girls (Not 30) and not the CIA (thank you.) And oh, at least 90 schoolgirls are still missing. 

The most cruel assertion is the claim that some of the girls didn’t want to come back. Does the CIA really want parents to believe they met their captive daughters and had an opportunity to bring them back but left them there because the Chibok girls said they didn’t want to be rescued?

The truth is the heroic trifecta of media proof-of-life expose’, the dramatic escape of Chibok girl Amina Ali and global #bbog activism led to the first mass freed girls in 2016 and not the CIA.

Please, CIA, let’s revise that contemporary history first after we’ve actually brought back the girls after 10 years. Not before.

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Emmanuel Ogebe is an international human rights advocate and a managing partner of the U.S.Nigeria Law Group, Washington DC.

The views expressed above are those of the author and not independently verified by TruthNigeria.

Finally here is a link to an excerpt from the CIA story book on our facebook page which was already released to our direct press list which has faced some blockages recently (so some of you may have already received the release below.)

CHIBOK SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSA… – US Nigeria Law Group

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Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards,

Emmanuel Ogebe, Esq.

Special Counsel

Justice for Jos Project

Seeking to end impunity in the Nigerian Genocide