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Lai Mohammed, minister of information, and some members of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group led by Oby Ezekwesili, are now searching for the Chibok schoolgirls aboard an air force jet in Sambisa forest.

Joseph Mutah, chief press secretary of the minister, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.

“The federal government team conducting the BringBackOurGirls Group and journalists on a mission to Sambisa forest have arrived Yola the Adamawa state capital,” he said.

“The BBOG team, led by their coordinator, Dr Oby Ezekweseli, was briefed at the Tactical Command Centre, Yola, by the minister of defence, Brig Gen Mansur Dan-Ali (Rtd); minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed; chief of air staff, vice marshal Sadique Abubakar and other operational commanders.

“The minister of information and culture and that of defence thereafter led the BBOG team and journalists to Sambisa forest in Borno state for the search of the abducted Chibok girls, using sophisticated cameras fixed on two air force jets.”

Earlier, the BBOG group had given the government some conditions before it would join the trip, but it later honoured the invitation.