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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said about 10,000 Nigerians, including boys and girls are still in Boko Haram\u2019s captivity.<\/p>\n

Ortom disclosed that the captives are being indoctrinated with militant fundamentalism by the terrorist group.<\/p>\n

The governor pointed out that over 30, 000 Nigerians have been killed and 3 million displaced by the terror group.<\/p>\n

He made the claim yesterday in Makurdi during a virtual presentation as guest lecturer at the 2021 Press Week\/Lecture organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Correspondents\u2019 Chapel, FCT Council.<\/p>\n

Ortom said: \u201cThe terror franchise is responsible for killings, rape, public executions, bombings of public and private property, and places of worship, robbery and mass abductions. These include the abductions of the Chibok girls (2012); Damasak school children (2015) and the Dapchi girls (2018) including Leah Sharibu who is still in custody.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports indicate that Boko Haram is holding more than 10,000 boys and girls and continues to indoctrinate them into militant fundamentalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe group was responsible for the bombing of the UN building in Abuja and has killed more than 30,000 people and displaced more than three million people. The North East is still unstable and there does not seem to be any prospects of defeating Boko Haram soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said about 10,000 Nigerians, including boys and girls are still in Boko Haram\u2019s captivity. Ortom disclosed that the captives are being indoctrinated with militant fundamentalism by the terrorist group. The governor pointed out that over 30, 000 Nigerians have been killed and 3 million displaced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,45,3862,254,3863,379],"class_list":["post-41172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-boko-haram","tag-girls","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-boys","tag-ortom"],"yoast_head":"\n10,000 Nigerian boys, girls still in Boko Haram captivity \u2013 Ortom - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said about 10,000 Nigerians, including boys and girls are still in Boko Hara ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10,000 Nigerian boys, girls still in Boko Haram captivity \u2013 Ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said about 10,000 Nigerians, including boys and girls are still in Boko Hara ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-16T16:06:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6079b5b73297a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"10,000 Nigerian boys, girls still in Boko Haram captivity \u2013 Ortom\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-16T16:06:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6079b5b73297a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Boko Haram\",\"girls\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian boys\",\"Ortom\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/10000-nigerian-boys-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-ortom\",\"name\":\"10,000 Nigerian boys, girls still in Boko Haram captivity \u2013 Ortom - 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