President Goodluck Jonathan has put aside visiting Chibok community,
where over 200 female students of a state-owned secondary school were
abducted over a month ago, at the moment, insisting that the visit will
not “solve the problem”.
Responding to a journalist during the Africa Security Summit in
Paris, President Jonathan said “if the president goes to Chibok today,
it does not solve any problem; may be psychological problem or for media
relevance. But you have not solved the problem” insisting that “the
problem facing the president and indeed the Nigerian government is how
to get this girls from where they are” he said.
President Jonathan, who noted that “these girls are from a particular
school, but there are a lot of misconceptions; these girls have been
removed from the school” insisted that “visiting the school per se does
not solve the problem”.
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“They (girls) are not from one family, they are scattered from a
particular local government area, which is made up of so many
communities. So there is no one family that you will go and visit” he
said.
Though a state owned school, President Jonathan maintained that it
remains the “commitment of the federal government to rebuild that school
and provide facilities to protect it since it is a school that
predominantly takes care of school education so that the girls will be
protected”.
He however noted that he will visit Chibok “no doubt about that” but
noted that it is unlike the some bomb blast situations where he visited
the scenes, insisting that “our interest now is to locate the girls; to
know where they are. These girls are not held in Chibok”
There had been widespread criticism over the cancelation of the
president’s visit to Chibok one month after the girls were abducted.
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