One of the parents of the Chibok girls abducted on April 14, 2014, by Boko Haram insurgents, said yesterday that she and other parents had had a meeting with a senior government official.
Mrs Hauwa Chibok disclosed that they had been hosted by the minister of state for power, Muhammed Wakil, who explained the efforts being made by the government to rescue their children. She said that it had given them hope that the girls would soon be returned.
The woman reportedly led members of the Chibok community to the meeting held at the instigation of President Jonathan.
Hauwa shared her emotions in a short statement sent to Leadership over the weekend:
“I write to thank president Goodluck Jonathan, for sending one of his ministers, Mohammed Wakil, to sympathize with us and assure us over our missing daughters.”
Meanwhile the Peoples Democratic Party campaign organization blasted the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that the party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, should be held responsible if the abducted Chibok girls are not found.
The claim was contained in a statement by the PDP campaign’s director of media and publicity, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. The extract from the document published on Vanguard, reads:
“Whilst the majority of Nigerians are overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope by saying that the girls are still alive, Lai Mohammed and the APC are not happy.
“The truth is that they do not want those girls to be found and neither do they care about their welfare or their safety. We say this because this was a man, and a party that complained and protested at the fact that Boko Haram was proscribed by the Federal Government last year.
“Lai Mohammed proclaimed that the proscription was unjust and unconstitutional. We have always believed that Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Governor Shettima and the APC know far more about the whereabouts of the Chibok girls and the activities of Boko Haram than they have cared to admit.
“Let it be clearly understood that if anything happens to those girls and if they are not produced at the soonest, we will hold Lai Mohammed, Buhari and the APC responsible.”
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