The
Chairman, Chibok community in Abuja, Tsambido Abana, said the members of the
community worked for Buhari in 2015 and expressed regrets for voting him into
power.
He
flayed the President for not fulfilling his electoral promise of rescuing the
girls, noting that one year after assuming power, Buhari had not rescued the
girls and had yet to visit the North-East.
Abana
said, “No one has spoken to the family of any of the Chibok girls since the
last video was released by the terrorists. We regret our votes. We regret them.
“We
were promised that the President would visit the Sambisa Forest after becoming
President; we were also told that within two weeks our girls would be rescued.
“But
over one year now, there is no tangible action about our girls. The Presidency
stated, instead, that it was confused about the insurgents.”
President
Muhammadu Buhari yesterday shunned the #BringBackOurGirls group and the parents
of the Chibok schoolgirls who were abducted by the Boko Haram sect 861 days
ago.
The
BBOG and the some parents of the girls had assembled at the Unity Fountain,
Maitama, Abuja, at 10am from where they marched towards the Presidential Villa.
Together
with hundreds of sympathisers, who joined them on the way, the protesters had
moved towards the President’s office, demanding concrete actions from the
Federal Government to save the girls.
But
the movement of the protesters was cut short by armed riot policemen who
blocked the access road to the seat of power.
The
protesters, who arrived at the junction to the Presidential Villa at 11.07am,
were prevented from going inside by policemen who told them that they had no
clearance to see the President.
The
protesters, led by the Co-convener, BBOG, Oby Ezekwesili, later set up a camp
on the access road to the President’s office.
In
response to Ezekwesiki’s query about the blockade, the officer in charge of the
police team, CSP Obasi Chuks, said he could not allow the protesters to proceed
to Aso Villa because they did not have an official clearance.
Neither
Buhari nor any of his aides came out to address the protesters for more than
three hours that they sat on the access road to the villa.
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