Gwoza attack: 30 policemen still missing – IGP

The Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, said on Tuesday that about 30 policemen were still missing, more than two months after Boko Haram terrorists attacked their training facility in Gwoza, Borno State.
The police boss who contradicted his earlier statement that about 20 policemen remained unaccounted for while speaking with State House correspondents, said one of the policemen that went missing had returned to his base.
Abba said: “Last week, we were able to identify that one of the missing officers in Gwoza had gone back to his base this time around.
“So, there can still be some that are in their homes, perhaps refusing to even report to anyone that they are around because of the trauma they went through.
“Or they could still be among the families in some of the villages around there.
“It is still our hope that they are alive and that they will come out alive.”
Thirty five police officers were declared missing following the deadly attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters on the Mobile Police Training School, Gwoza on August 23.