By
next month, it will b a year since about 276 secondary school girls
were abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno state by Boko Haram
insurgents,
While some managed to escape, not less than 200 of them are still
missing in spite of the persistent pressure on the Federal Government to
rescue them.
For whatever aim, the government recently announced plans to rebuild
the destroyed school where the girls were abducted, however, the
heart-wrenched parents of the girls as well as community members are far
from impressed.
The move by the government apparently infuriated them further, as
they insist that all they want is for their girls to be rescued.
The Caretaker Chairman of Chibok Council Area, Mallam Ba’ana Lawan, mirrored the Chibok parent’s rage in 5 quotes:
1. “It is disheartening to inform you that since the
abduction of these girls, the Federal Government did not bother to send
delegations to Chibok to sympathize with the parents, instead, the
parents were invited to Abuja and conveyed in cargo military plane with
no comfort whatsoever.”
2. “We still observed that recently, President Goodluck
Jonathan visited Mubi and Baga, but failed to visit Chibok to
sympathize with our people.”
3. “We also observed that the President and Chief of
Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh had severally promised that
these girls will soon be released, but it is now more than 300 days, and
nothing has happened.
4. “It is most unfortunate that Chibok Local Government
Area has witnessed six different attacks by insurgents and about 300
people lost their lives with property worth millions of naira destroyed,
hundreds of houses razed down as well as food and cash crops looted.
The most recent attacks being that of Gatamwarwa, Kautikari and other
surrounding villages where several lives were equally lost. Yet there
was no response from the Federal Government.”
5. “We therefore condemn the move by the Federal
Government to embark on the reconstruction of the school (GGSS Chibok)
instead of bringing back our girls as severally promised.”
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