Chibok community reacts to Buhari’s comments

chika ebuzor

January 1, 2016 4:35 AM

Members of the Chibok community say the President is not telling Nigerians the truth, regarding the rescue efforts put in place to ensure the safe return of the missing girls.

Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners look on during a protest procession marking the 500th day since the abduction of girls in Chibok, along a road in Abuja August 27, 2015. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

A lot of reactions have trailed President Buhari’s maiden media chat on Wednesday, December 30, 2015.

Answering questions thrown to him about the Chibok girls, Buhari said “There is no firm intelligence where those girls physically are and in what conditions they are, but what we learnt from our intelligence is that they (terrorists) kept on shifting them around so that they are not taken by surprise and get freed.

“And a whole lot of them are not in one place and we don’t know how many divisions they (Boko Haram) have and where they are. There is no intelligence to say that the girls are alive and in one place. That is the honest truth.”

Speaking to Punch Newspapers, the Chairman, Chibok Community in Abuja, Tsambido Abana said “When I heard the President’s comment on Chibok girls, I was shocked and I slumped on my chair; I was confused. My thinking is that it means what they have been telling us is all lies, if they are saying they don’t have any clue on the whereabouts of the Chibok girls.”

In April 2014, over 200 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State.

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