Two of those who were on Sunday declared wanted by for alleged links with Boko Haram – Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram; and a lawyer, Ahmed Bolori – have reported to the Nigerian military.
They were alleged to know the whereabouts of the Chibok girls but refused to give the information to the military.
The Nigerians Army, in a statement by its spokesperson, Colonel Sani Usman, declared three persons wanted on Sunday shortly after Boko Haram released a video showing some of the Chibok girls still in their den.
The third person declared wanted was a journalist, Ahmed Halkida.
While Wakil, a lawyer reported at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Monday, Bolori was at the Nigerian Army headquarters in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Sunday night shortly after the declaration by the military.
Wakil said she was not immediately taken in for interrogation when she arrived at the Defence Headquarters.
She said the Front Desk officers asked her what she wanted and she told them she was declared wanted on Sunday and as such had come to report.
But the officers said they were not aware of such, after which she asked them to read the newspapers online.
“They told me they will go and read and get back to me,” she said, adding that a few minutes later, a supervisor entered the reception to collect her passport and told her he would return 10 minutes later.
Usman confirmed the development.
He said: “I have been reliably informed that she has reported at the Defence Headquarters and she has been directed to the Directorate of Military Intelligence.”
But Wail said she remains innocent of the charges by the military.
In a statement posted on Facebook by Dr. Emman Shehu of the International Institute of Journalism, Abuja, she said: “I am Aisha Alkali Wakil. I understand that the military declared me, Ahmed Silkida and Ahmed Bolori wanted for having links with Boko Haram. It’s interesting, now they believe me?
“I know the Boko Haram boys. I have been in the front fighting for peace long before Chibok girls were kidnapped. Nigerian security knows me too well, I’m not shady. Why declare me wanted?
“I have had meetings with the Chief of Army Staff and his people. I told them the way forward, to allow me come with some commanders of Boko Haram and discuss with them, but they chose to do things their own way only and never gave considerations to any of my suggestions.
“I want to inform the Nigerian people of my innocence and make them realise that I am in constant touch with the security personnel and they know where to find me but I wonder why I had to be declared wanted on national news even mentioning my husband’s name alongside.
“This has put my immediate and extended family under a lot of pressure and I do not deserve this from the government.
“Though they may not appreciate all my efforts to proffer peaceful solutions to the menace of Boko Haram, my name should not be dragged to the mud nor my character defamed.”
Bolori on his part said: “I have received several calls that the Nigerian Army has declared me and two others wanted. What kind of system is that where you will be declared wanted without being informed.
“I don’t know what crime I have committed. Whatever the case, I have contacted the army to provide a venue and they are yet to respond as expected.
“Sequel to my efforts to reach and report to them, the Nigerian Army asked me to return home and meet them by 10am on Monday (yesterday).
“This was after several unanswered calls and messages I have sent them. May God grant us peace.”
He went further after getting to the venue of the meeting: “I have signed the visitor’s register since and I am still waiting to be taken in although the army guard doesn’t have airtime to contact his supervisors.
“The army is now treating me very friendly and peacefully as a nice colonel just took me to his office to drink tea.”