President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday had a meeting with members of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, campaigners where he pleaded for patience from Nigerians on the rescue of the remaining 219 Chibok schoolgirls still being held by Boko Haram insurgents.
At his meeting with the advocacy group at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, President Buhari lamented the state of the nation’s security but promised that his government will do all it can to free the girls.
His words, “It is ironic how Nigeria, which helped Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Sudan is now asking for help from Niger and Chad. How have the mighty fallen!”
In an apparent reference to the Jonathan administration, Buhari said: “I don’t think we can rationalise the government’s incompetence in dealing with this issue. We only ask for your patience.”
He used the meeting to disclose that he would be travelling to Cameroon and Benin after the Ramadan in line with his administration commitment to ending the insurgency through collaboration with neighbouring countries.
In an earlier remark, a former Minister of Education and coordinator of the BBOG group, Obiageli Ezekwesili listed out the demands of the group, stressing that the rescue of the Chibok schoolgirls remained their primary demand.
The former Minister, who urged the government to establish a national bureau of missing persons to track abducted citizens, equally called for the establishment of a structured feedback mechanism that would provide citizens with information on its effort concerning the rescue of the abducted schoolgirls.
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