Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Thursday that he could reach
out to the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
insurgents, but regretted that the Federal Government had yet to give him the
green light to act.
Obasanjo, in an interview on the Hausa service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation monitored in Kaduna, however, did not say if he
had made formal request to the government to intervene.
“I have ways of reaching them(Boko Haram) but I have not been given the
go ahead,” he added.
The former President however expressed fear that some of the
schoolgirls may never return home but added that the insurgents
might free those found to be pregnant or have given birth.
“I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing
about them many years from now, some will give birth to children of the Boko
Haram members, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they
may release them.”
He also expressed worry that the girls might have been separated and
kept in different locations.
Obasanjo had previously tried to negotiate with the
insurgents, especially in September 2011 after members of the sect bombed the
United Nations headquarters in Abuja.
He flew to Maiduguri, Borno State where he met
with relatives of the Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, who the
police had illegally killed in their custody in 2009.
Obasanjo spoke on the heels of a Ministerial Meeting on Security in
Northern Nigeria holding in London.
The Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Mr. William Hague, is
leading his colleagues from other nations to consider what more could be done
to improve regional coordination, economic and social development
to counter the threat of Boko Haram.
Hague had announced that: “Since the appalling abduction of the
schoolgirls in Chibok, the international community has worked closely to
support Nigeria in the fight against terrorism.”
Baba if one of those girls were to be one of you grandchild will you wait for a weak humain beign to give u go ahead to find you r grand child or your child there is god oh
ReplyDeleteThis shows that BH have been existing before now and most of the elder statemen knew them. So please ask Goodluck to give u the go ahead!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteStupid talk, I respect you Baba but why must u wait for someone to give you order? Besides, we don`t have government in the country. Even US confirmed that.
ReplyDeleteI am sure you can enter Aso rock , any time you want to
ReplyDeleteOkay Baba, since you don't know the way to Aso Rock again to secure the go ahead for the release of these abducted Chibok girls, I HEREBY GIVE YOU THE GO AHEAD for the immediate release of these girls. Remember, you won't be alive forever. So act NOW before it gets late.
ReplyDeleteThis is a saddening.am not happy about our former president's comment about BH.After all this weeks.all the slogan worldwide. If he blives he has the solution to BH abduction and he is doing nothing then prosterity will judge.
ReplyDeleteBaba you will live long , before you are even spoke up we were already know the fact that our present adminstration is nothing when we are talking about adminstration than to rude & disrespect to those who make him to where he be today! To all people in south-west you are second to none, and the God will continue to grant you the knowlegde to use to be protecting us in south-west even as in Nigeria as a whole, my hope is that you will take all the necessary step to free all this girls from insurgence.
ReplyDeleteBaba watin bee go ahead Order again..if you have the know-how do it and forget those that will tell us everyday that they are now ready to negotiate with BH .forget dead body and render ur help
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