The mother of a kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl is demanding that Nigeria’s president free detained Boko Haram militants in exchange for the more than 200 girls held captive, as the Islamic extremists have offered. I specially informed our people in captivity in Lagos that they should be patient and continue with their prayers, God will take us to where no one expects and we will rescue them. What are we going to do?
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You all knew that we had the girls, but God never allowed you to know their location and you will never know by God’s grace. “It’s like, you know, it’s like ‘please help us, help us find our daughters”, said Chief Executive of the Murtala Mohammed Foundation, Aisha Oyebode.
The group added that the excuse of a split within the terrorists’ ranks or a period of validation of the authenticity of their claims should not suffice and urged for an immediate, transparent, action and results-oriented response plan by the federal government. Those who didn’t see their daughters in the new video and heard about the deaths of some girls were left wondering what happened to them.
However, Salkida said: “Clearly, my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace in the country since 2006 is an open book known to Nigerians and the worldwide community”.
“We appreciate their commitment to the return of these girls but there are few things we need to do behind the scene”. By saying we are talking to them, I am talking from a point of knowledge.
“Clearly, my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace in the country since 2006 is an open book known to Nigerians and the worldwide community”, he said.
The parents of the kidnapped girls said they last met with Buhari in January, but there has been little progress in the search and rescue operation since. “But on the [other hand] is the sense of angst that two years and four months after, all we ever get to see are these unrelenting waves of commitment to rescuing them, which then ebbs as soon as the news concerning them goes off the screen”.
“When I heard her voice, I realise she is my daughter”, he told reporters in Abuja. “Presently, some of the girls are crippled, some are terribly sick and some of them, as I had said, died during bombardment by the Nigerian military”. Some of the girls can be seen weeping as Maida speaks.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Salkida and Aisah Wakil, two of three Nigerians wanted by the Nigerian Army for links with Boko Haram have described the declaration as mischief. The operation is being conducted appropriately.
“But in the case of the Chibok girls, the media reaction was global”.
“The government justified the demolition of a building and other impediments along the axis, appropriate comments at the right time”, Olonishakin said Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali who was also at the meeting said the major discussion was on how to respond to any emergency situation in the country.
Sunday’s video is another proof of life.
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“Reigniting public sympathy for the girls might be an attempt to force the government to listen”. If it will be necessary to go to Villa every day to demand release of our girls of Chibok, be ready.
