Leader » of the Bring Back Our Girls
(BBOG) group, Oby Ezekwesili has urged
President Muhammadu Buhari to show
more decisiveness in efforts to rescue the
abducted Chibok girls.
Ezekwesili also said that Buhari seems to be
leaving the fate of the girls in the hands of
their captors, Boko Haram.
She made the comments on Tuesday, August
30, 2016, while speaking with journalists after
a protest march in Abuja.
“What we have heard has been a lot of
tentativeness, at the recent development
where our president said that he is ready to
do a prisoner swap and that Boko Haram can
nominate an international NGO to
intermediate that,” Ezekwesili said according
to The Cable.
“As far as we are concerned, that’s not
sufficient. What our president needs to do is
to take this matter hands-on and to determine
a lot of the steps towards any kind of closure
on this matter.
“Every time a statement comes out of the
federal government, it is tentative. Every time
a statement comes out that seems to put
responsibility on those who are holding our
children, it just makes us feel the kind of
decisiveness and the engagement that we
should see coming out of this; it is not
happening.
“We should be determining a lot of things
whether it is military operation, whether it is
negotiation, if it’s the combination of military
operations and negotiation, we should be in
the driver seat of this.
“We are not leaving it to for actions that
come from the other end; we must take
charge; we are the nation-state. Our girls are
out there in the wild with men of
dishonourable intent; we must take charge,”
she added.
Buhari recently said that the government
would be willing to negotiate with Boko
Haram for the girls’ release if it could prove
it was agreeing with the legitimate leaders of
the sect.
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Meanwhile, the BBOG group has vowed to
march to the Presidential Villa every 72 hours
until the government briefs it on concrete
plans to rescue the missing girls.
The over 200 girls were abducted on April 14,
2014, and most of them remain in captivity.
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