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Nigerian army failed to act on warning before kidnap-Amnesty

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09-05-2014 | 11:34

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Amnesty International said on Friday that the Nigerian security forces failed to act on a warning launched four hours in advance about a raid set to be done by Islamist militant group Boko Haram on a school that led to the kidnapping of more than 200 girls last month.

Amnesty said today in a statement citing "credible sources" that Nigeria’s military headquarters in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, became aware of the attack by Boko Haram on the town of Chibok at just after 7 p.m. on April 14.

Military spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade didn’t answer three calls to his mobile phone.

“The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram’s raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only increase the national and international outcry at this horrific crime,” Netsanet Belay, London-based Amnesty International’s Africa director for research and advocacy, said in the statement.

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, which means “western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 276 girls in Borno state in the northeast. He has threatened to sell the girls in “markets,” helping fuel a global campaign to free them.

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