TELL BADEH: WE WANT OUR GIRLS NOT 'GOOD NEWS'

 “My brother, Chibok is a shadow of itself as most parents stay indoors to mourn their abducted children. Government is not helping matters. We keep getting assurance our abducted would be girls.“It is the farming season, but nobody is going to the farm. The trauma is too much for us.” That is that lamentation of Mallam Chiroma Usman Chibok, who claimed that seven of his relations were abducted by Boko Haram.

This abduction issues is now taking a different turn, we do not know whom to belief now. My questions are that was it true that these girls were actually abducted? How come that 53 girls did escaped from the enclave of Boko Haram unhurt while are soldiers could not rescue a single girl?

According to the governor of Borno state, his government had approved N150 million for the rehabilitation of the 53 girls who escaped, and for assistance to the traumatised parents whose daughters were still held, and said that: “Unfortunately, we had to hold what we should have done for Chibok because of the politics brought in. If we had released some material support earlier, some bad elements would have said we tried to buy the people of Chibok

Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh , who claimed on Monday that the Military knows where the schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 are but will make no attempt to rescue them. "the good news for the parents of the girls is that we know where they are." "But where they are held, can we go there with force? We can't kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back."

To me personally, i do not see any good in this statement, in as much as our military are still scared about Boko Haram, with the claims and counter-claims that some girls were escaped from the Boko haram camp, couples with the statements credited to Major General Abdullahi Muriana, Chief of Accounts of the Nigerian Army , who said that the Nigerian Army it lacks the financial capacity to cope with the challenges posed by Boko Haram and others in the country “It is our humble appeal that government should evolve other means of funding and support for military operations other than the normal budgetary allocations. Such means include but are not limited to strategic cooperation and liaison with other civil industries for the production of uniforms and other equipment,” he stated. Then the two statements made by these two Generals shows that we have an untrained and unequipped military that aren’t their when we need them most.

 Alhaji Kashim Shettima, Borno state Governor, while responding to the Presidential Fact Finding Committee on the abduction, in Maiduguri, that doubts over the abduction of the Chibok school girls and the theory that the kidnap was staged-managed by his government was as painful as the actual abduction.

 “Borno has seen evil times. Our people have suffered. The Chibok incident, for me, has grossly exposed our weighty weakness as leaders in terms of assuming our shared responsibilities.

“Doubts over that abduction pained me far more than the childish theory that as Government, we staged that abduction in order to create basis to stop the extension of emergency rule in Borno.

“Then, there was the issue of saying Chibok was not safe and we went ahead to open the school. Majority of these students are from Chibok axis, if the school was considered unsafe, I don’t think any right thinking parent would allow his or her child to study in an atmosphere of high risk.
“To every other Muslim, worldwide, these men that kill, destroy and abduct, insult Islam by calling themselves Muslims. They have contradicted every single tenet of the Islamic religion. They have in some cases, tried to change the ordained translation of verses in the Holy Quran.

“To every Muslim, a verse of the Holy Quran has clearly said that there is no compulsion in religion. But to these men of violence, there is compulsion not only in religion but even in Islamic ideology. To these men, any human who doesn’t share their ideology deserves to be brutally killed. A Muslim that is of not of the sect is condemned to death and so is Christian. To them, the human race should go into extinction for their doctrine to thrive.”
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“The Borno State Government is committed to sincere and active collaboration with the Federal Government and all other support groups in our collective fight against insurgency.
“I see misconception about those behind the insurgency as one major hindrance to fighting it. So long we continue to look the wrong way, there would be lack of focus on the part of most stakeholders and in which case, the victims would remain the accused.”

“It will interest you to note that on Sunday, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA came to Chibok to distribute relief materials to the victims, but none of the parents collected even soap. They protested to NEMA officials that they want their abducted daughters back. Those who benefited from the relief materials were people whose daughters were not among the abducted,” “We are suffering in silence, if we had seen the corpses of our girls, we would have forgotten about them. We do not know what is happening, it is unfortunate” Mr. Yama said.