Chibok Girls: Fresh Facts Emerge On Aborted Meeting With Jonathan
Although the proposed meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan
and parents of kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls and some girls that escaped
from Boko Haram camps has been rescheduled, fresh facts have emerged on
why the earlier parley did not hold.
Visiting Pakistani activist and United Nations envoy, Malala Yousafzai, had extracted a commitment from President Jonathan to hold a meeting with parents of the abducted schoolgirls and girls who escaped from Boko Haram captivity. The meeting, which was scheduled for last Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was aborted when neither the parents of the abducted schoolgirls nor the escapee girls came.
Sources revealed that the meeting was sabotaged when some BringBackOurGirls campaigners allegedly impressed it on the girls’ parents and the escapee girls not to honour the invitation.
Government sources, which spoke on condition of anonymity, while confirming the suspicion of sabotage, told Daily Sun that the BringBackOurGirls campaigners were blackmailing government to achieve political mileage in projection for 2015.
Sources revealed that some BringBackOurGirls campaigners had also prevailed on the parents of the Chibok girls as well as those who escaped from captivity not to honour previous invitations in the last couple of weeks.
It was gathered that the group frustrated efforts of the Borno State Commissioner of Police, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Presidential Fact Finding Committee to meet with the parents of the abducted girls.
The fact-finding committee had alluded to this in its report to President Jonathan, where it hinted that parents of the abducted girls refused to meet with members of the committee after several efforts, including a guarantee of privacy and adequate security.
A member of the committee told Daily Sun: “The excuse given by the parents for refusing to honour our invitation for a meeting was fear of reprisal by the insurgents. We chose a very private location and shut out the media; yet they wouldn’t show up. How then do you put faces to the names of affected parents and work out plans for assuaging their emotional trauma?”
Sources revealed that Mr. Eason Jordan, director of administration of the Malala Foundation, had aborted his scheduled flight on Tuesday to prevail on the BringBackOurGirls campaigners to drop pressure on the parents and girls not to honour the appointment with the President to no avail.
Source: sunnewsonline.com
Visiting Pakistani activist and United Nations envoy, Malala Yousafzai, had extracted a commitment from President Jonathan to hold a meeting with parents of the abducted schoolgirls and girls who escaped from Boko Haram captivity. The meeting, which was scheduled for last Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was aborted when neither the parents of the abducted schoolgirls nor the escapee girls came.
Sources revealed that the meeting was sabotaged when some BringBackOurGirls campaigners allegedly impressed it on the girls’ parents and the escapee girls not to honour the invitation.
Government sources, which spoke on condition of anonymity, while confirming the suspicion of sabotage, told Daily Sun that the BringBackOurGirls campaigners were blackmailing government to achieve political mileage in projection for 2015.
Sources revealed that some BringBackOurGirls campaigners had also prevailed on the parents of the Chibok girls as well as those who escaped from captivity not to honour previous invitations in the last couple of weeks.
It was gathered that the group frustrated efforts of the Borno State Commissioner of Police, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Presidential Fact Finding Committee to meet with the parents of the abducted girls.
The fact-finding committee had alluded to this in its report to President Jonathan, where it hinted that parents of the abducted girls refused to meet with members of the committee after several efforts, including a guarantee of privacy and adequate security.
A member of the committee told Daily Sun: “The excuse given by the parents for refusing to honour our invitation for a meeting was fear of reprisal by the insurgents. We chose a very private location and shut out the media; yet they wouldn’t show up. How then do you put faces to the names of affected parents and work out plans for assuaging their emotional trauma?”
Sources revealed that Mr. Eason Jordan, director of administration of the Malala Foundation, had aborted his scheduled flight on Tuesday to prevail on the BringBackOurGirls campaigners to drop pressure on the parents and girls not to honour the appointment with the President to no avail.
Source: sunnewsonline.com
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