Rescue Our Girls Before Building Their Schools - Chibok Community Told FG

The federal government should prioritise the search and rescue of the 219 abducted Chibok school girls rather than sending the minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, on a school rebuilding project in the Chibok town, community leaders said.

Yesterday, the leaders of Chibok community had condemned last week’s visit of Okonjo-Iweala to Chibok town insisting the federal government hoodwinked the community by secretly entering the town at a time the state governor, Kashim Shettima, was being expected in the town.

The minister made a secret and surprised visit to Chibok town where she met with some of the mothers of the abducted Chibok girls and also carried out a flag off ceremony for the rebuilding of the destroyed school from where the 219 girls were abducted on the 14th of April last year.

The minister told the community that she was in the school at the behest of the federal government to convey the concerns of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and also intimate the community on the efforts being made by the government to ensure that the girls are rescued.

But yesterday the Chibok people in their hundreds, at a press conference, condemned the visit of the minister stating that none of them who are stakeholders of the community were informed or aware of the minister’s visit.

They said the finance minister who arrived Chibok via a military helicopet alongside the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), hijacked the event being organised to welcome the Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, who was being expected to pay a repeat visit to the town. (Leadership)