Chibok girls and Buhari

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government will do all within its power to free the over 200 Chibok school girls abducted last year Boko Haram terrorists.


He said this at the Presidential Villa when he received the Women In Politics Forum (WIPF). The girls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014.
Buhari had said on Wednesday during the presidential media chat that there was no credible intelligence report on the whereabouts and the condition of the missing girls.
But the president assured yesterday that the fight for the return of the abducted schoolgirls was ongoing and “continues to be a most worrying issue” to his administration.
Buhari also stated that a committee to rehabilitate the infrastructure in the North-East and resettle the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) would soon be formally inaugurated.
The president said the committee, to be headed by former Defence Minister, retired General Theophilus Danjuma, would also include Aliko Dangote, noting that local and foreign assistance received would be channeled through the committee.
He said he had compiled a list of damaged infrastructure, including schools and bridges and handed it to the leaders of the G7 countries and the United States.
“I didn’t ask for a kobo (in cash). It is up to them to choose what they will undertake. Already, some of them have sent teams to verify our assertions,” he said.
The president lamented the effects of the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group on women and children who he described as the worst-hit victims of the insurgency.
While acknowledging the case made by the WIPF for a better representation of women in his government, Buhari assured that women would fare notably well in the composition of federal parastatals and their boards in the first quarter of this year.
On the alleged slow pace of his administration, Buhari maintained that steps must taken with caution in order to avoid mistakes. “We are trying to change the structures put in place by our predecessors in office for 16 years. If we hurry it, we will make mistakes.
That will be a disaster,” he said.
The president described the 2016 budget proposal as good for employment and manufacturing, saying: “By the end of the second quarter, the full impact of these positive measures will be felt.”
Earlier, the WIPF, comprising women leaders from 26 registered political parties, led by Ebere Ifendu of the Labour Party, had declared support for the federal government’s war against corruption and insecurity.
The forum, which sought laws that would promote gender equity, also urged action on the implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the WIPF made the record of being the first organisation to be received by Buhari in the new year.
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