After 265 days that
their daughters were kidnapped from school, some of the distraught
parents of the students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno
State, on Thursday criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for not
fulfilling his promise to rescue the girls from the custody of Boko
Haram.
The abduction of the 219 girls from
their hostel at night on April 14, 2014 has attracted global outrage and
the President had promised several times that the girls would be
rescued alive.
Nine of the abducted girls’ parents,
during their meeting with the BringBackOurGirls group on Thursday in
Abuja, carpeted the President for failing to bring back the schoolgirls.
The leader of the parents, Rev. Mark
Enoch, accused the government of having a hand in the abduction of the
girls, noting that the principal of the school in Chibok had, few hours
before the abduction, locked the girls in their hostel and warned them
not to leave.
Enoch explained that the relatives of
the principal and the school matron were able to rescue their daughters
from the sect, leaving other girls in captivity.
“This is intentional, the hand of
government is in the kidnapping; we want the government to bring back
our girls. If they cannot do it alone, they should seek the assistance
of the United Nations and some advanced countries, the distressed father
said.
The Chibok girls abduction never ceases to sadden and depress me. If that was the only Jonathan achieved as a president, I would have been grateful to him.
I can't even begin to imagine the despair and resignation of those girls in the hands of their abductors.
what can we do? I feel despair myself...bereft of ideas, suggestions and solutions....
PUNCH
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