FG’s position on Chibok girls contradictory –BBOG group

The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group has ex­pressed worry over what it described as the contradictory position of the Federal Government on the current situation of the abducted Chibok girls.

Spokesperson of the group, Aisha Yesufu, while addressing journalists yesterday at Unity Foun­tain, venue for the BBOG sit-outs, said the public deserved to know the true position with regard to the girls, who had been held captive for 329 days.

She said it was worry­ing that while President Goodluck Jonathan was confident that the school­girls would be rescued, the Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, said the girls may not be found. Chidoka was a guest on BBC’s Hardtalk interview programme re­corded in London.
Yesufu said: “We had expressed concern that two weeks into the six-week operations, there had been no status update on ef­forts specific to the rescue of our 219 Chibok girls. As though responding to our concerns, our presi­dent assured Nigerians that the Chibok girls were still alive.
“We, like the rest of the public were delighted to hear this; but would be doubly assured once Mr. President’s assurance is confirmed to have been based on credible intel­ligence information. This is because we sadly recall that some 287 days ago, being May 28, 2014, the Chief of Defence Staff in­formed the world that our military knew where the girls were and assured their parents that they would be back.
“Therefore, if a reassur­ance is being given nearly 10 months later based on deductive inference that terrorists have not released videos to the contrary, it raises serious concerns about the sensitivity of our government to the feelings of the Chibok girls’ fami­lies. Even more shocking is that on the same day, our president was raising hope, the Minister of Aviation was in far away London, stating that our Chibok girls may never come back.”