Nigeria Role Six Month After The Chibok Girls Were Abducted

The Nigerian government claimed they have done so well in the search for the missing Chibok girls.  Really?

At a briefing on Tuesday, October 14, to mark the six months of the girls’ abduction, the coordinator of the National Information Centre, NIC, Mike Omeri listed the government’s achievements at rescuing the girls, Premium Times reports. 

He said some of the achievements were setting up a fact-finding committee, conducting surveillance and partnering with foreign allies including the United States and the United Kingdom. 

Others, he said, include the successful dispatch of troops to carry out land and aerial surveillance and occasional bombardment of terrorists’ locations, adding that the armed forces and security services have made remarkable strides towards containing the activities of the terrorists. 

Subtly accusing the BringBackOurGirls group of inciting the public against the government, Omeri warned that the government would not tolerate “subversive” tendencies of campaigners calling for increased effort. 

“The efforts at inciting the populace against the government and her agencies is, to say the least, very unfortunate. It is necessary to caution those involved that there is a clear difference between credible civil agitation and subversive preoccupations. 

“Every attack on the government by unpatriotic members of the public, invariably, emboldens the resolve of the insurgents,” Mr. Omeri said.  

However, the NIC boss disclosed that the Nigerian armed forces and the security agencies have developed an extensive rescue plan and tactical operational methodology embedded within the on-going military efforts in the northeast. 

“In order words, the rescue of the girls is, no doubt, an integral part of the larger government effort to safeguard the territorial integrity of the Nigeria which the armed forces must be allowed to prosecute logically, in line with well-known and established tradition,” he said. 

“It should be clearly understood that government is, as much, concerned with protecting the totality of Nigerians,” he said.

Today makes it six months since over 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok and they are nowhere to be found. 

Meanwhile, the #BringBackOurGirls group today attempted to meet President Goodluck Jonathan, but they were refused access.