I don’t know where your daughters are, Buhari ‘tells’ Chibok parents, BBOG group
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday told the parents of the missing
Chibok girls that he did not know where their daughters were. The
parents, 136 of them, together with members of the Bringbackourgirls
(BBOG) movement, converged on the banquet hall of the presidential
villa, seeking answers to the whereabouts of the 219 missing schoolgirls
from Chibok in Borno state.
But they were shocked and broken when the president told them in
unequivocal terms that he did not have any information on their
whereabouts. Speaking with TheCable shortly after a 45-minute meeting
with the president that journalists were barred from attending, Aisha
Yesufu, a leader of the BBOG movement, said that the advocacy group
would keep demanding the safe rescue of the girls from the government.
“The president said he had no credible intelligence on the missing
Chibok girls. He said he is somebody who does not lie. And he will not
start by lying,” Yesufu said. “We are not saying the president should
lie, but when you are saying there is no credible intelligence, and that
the girls are scattered and married off; then how do we know? These are
two things.
Also See: Photo: Buhari meets with Chibok parents
“And he said it (abduction of the Chibok girls) happened during the
last administration. I find it very worrisome. I remember one of the
parents asked what he meant by saying it happened in the last
administration. Does it mean the girls will not be rescued? “I would
like the president to know that there is no vacuum in government. That
it happened during the last administration is not an excuse. It is duty
of the Nigerian government to ensure that the Chibok girls are rescued.
It is their right and not a privilege. And where we have failed there is
a need for us to apologise. “As for me, I was terribly sad and shocked
because the president did not look at the parents to say ‘we are sorry
as a nation for your children who have been abducted for 21 months’.
“The president finished his speech, he dropped the microphone and walked
out. And I thought that could have been a moment for him to connect
with the parents. “We will continue our campaign. We do not care who the
head of the government is. It is duty of the Nigerian government to
rescue the Chibok and we will continue making our demands. The
government should stop the excuses.” Earlier, the president had ordered
journalists out of the venue of the meeting because of its “sensitive”
nature.
The Cable
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