What Buhari told Chibok parents – By Obiageli Ezekwesili
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with 108 Chibok parents and the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group.
The closed-door meeting held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, in Aso Rock, Abuja.
Here’s what BBOG leader, Obiageli Ezekwesili, said Buhari said:
The President stated that he would have expected us to acknowledge the efforts that they have so far made and that we failed to acknowledge the efforts they have made, but that he wishes that we would agree that he is very committed to the matter of our Chibok girls.
He used the specific phrase that he sleeps and wakes up thinking about the rescue of our girls.
What the President essentially said is that his statement during the media chat that they do not have credible intelligence was him being truthful in the way that he knows how to be and that he was not prepared to tell any lies.
He insisted that they do not have the kind of reliable intelligence that would enable them rescue the girls as immediately as we are demanding.
He said that we should continue to try to bear with him and that based on the fact that the government has recorded considerable success in decimating Boko Haram and its hold over the northeast and that what remains is the matter of rescuing our Chibok girls and other affected citizens that are in abduction.
He said, therefore, we will have to wait and that they would make the effort. He pleaded with the parents that his government would place as much efforts (as possible) to rescuing the girls and that was the same message he had given to them before and that he was repeating the same message.
So we are demanding that this administration will quickly agree with the demands of these parents that new investigation be made even as General Sabo report is being disclosed.
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