Pres. Jonathan indited an article which was published on Washington Post yesterday June 26th, about the missing Chibok girls and why he has remained marginally quiet about the search for the girls. Find the in-depth article below
I have had to remain quiet about the perpetuating efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the girls abducted in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram. I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan reprehenders to suggest inaction or even impotency. Continue...
My silence has been indispensable to eschew compromising the details of our investigation. But let me state this unequivocally: My regime and our security and perspicacity accommodations have spared no resources, have not ceased and will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to equity. On my orders, our forces have aggressively sought these killers in the forests of northern Borno state, where they are predicated. They are plenarily committed to bulwarking the integrity of their country.
My heart aches for the missing children and their families. I am a parent myself, and I ken how awfully this must hurt. Nothing is more paramount to me than finding and rescuing our girls.
Since 2010, thousands of people have been killed, injured, abducted or coerced by Boko Haram, which seeks to inundate the country and impose its ideology on all Nigerians. My regime is tenacious to preclude that. We will not succumb to the will of terrorists.
I have had to remain quiet about the perpetuating efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the girls abducted in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram. I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan reprehenders to suggest inaction or even impotency.
My silence has been obligatory to eschew compromising the details of our investigation. But let me state this unequivocally: My regime and our security and perspicacity accommodations have spared no resources, have not ceased and will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to equity. On my orders, our forces have aggressively sought these killers in the forests of northern Borno state, where they are predicated. They are plenarily committed to forfending the integrity of their country.
My heart aches for the missing children and their families. I am a parent myself, and I ken how awfully this must hurt. Nothing is more paramount to me than finding and rescuing our girls.
Since 2010, thousands of people have been killed, injured, abducted or coerced by Boko Haram, which seeks to inundate the country and impose its ideology on all Nigerians. My regime is tenacious to preclude that. We will not succumb to the will of terrorists.
In September, I will urge the U.N. General Assembly to establish a U.N.-coordinated system for sharing perspicacity and, if compulsory, special forces and law enforcement to confront terrorism wherever it occurs.
In Nigeria, there are political, religious and ethnic cleavages to surmount if we are to subjugate Boko Haram. We need more preponderant understanding and outreach between Muslims and Christians. We withal ken that, as it seeks to recruit the credulous, Boko Haram exploits the economic disparities that remain a quandary in our country. We are addressing these challenges through such steps as bringing stakeholders together and engendering a safe schools initiative, a victims’ support fund and a presidential economic instauration program for northeastern Nigeria. We are additionally committed to ridding our country of corruption and safeguarding human and civil rights and the rule of law.
Something positive can emerge from the situation in Nigeria: most consequential, the return of the Chibok girls, but withal incipient international cooperation to gainsay havens to terrorists and ravage their organizations wherever they are — whether in the forests of Nigeria, on the streets of Incipient York or sanctuaries in Iraq or Pakistan. Those who value humanity , civilization and the innocence of children can do no less.