Parents of the abducted pupils of Government Secondary School (GSS), Chibok, Borno State, yesterday alerted the public on the activities of fraudsters using their names to defraud Nigerians and corporate bodies.
More than 200 students of the school were abducted by suspected insurgents on April 14 last year while writing their final examination.
Mr. Yakubu Maina, the chairman of the Association of Parents of Abducted Girls, raised the alert at a news conference in Maiduguri.
He said: “We wish to alert Nigerians and corporate organisations on the existence of some individuals and organisations masquerading as parents of Chibok girls to defraud them of their money.
“The call became necessary because this group has turned the agitation for the release of our daughters into a scam.”
Maina, supported by the secretary of the association, Mr. Lawan Zanna, lamented that the group often deceived parents of the girls into attending their functions, only to be duped.
“We have realised that the whole thing has been turned into business by individuals, who pretend to be fighting our cause.
“Some real parents have been lured to attending meetings with highly-placed individuals in Abuja and beyond, only to discover that they have been shortchanged,” Maina said.
He said 14 parents of the abducted girls have died, following heart-related diseases.
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