JONATHAN Refuses To Bring Back Our Girls

The protest which started around 3pm  was later addressed by the Minister of women Affairs, Hajia Zanaib Maina, said the federal Government is doing everything possible to ensure the safe release of the remaining 219 Government Secondary school, Chibok, Borno State from Boko HaraM.

The march to the Presidential Villa by #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG,  Abuja family, was yesterday, disrupted by heavily armed anti riot police men, all the roads leading to Presidential villa in Abuja, were blocked.

 

The protesters that were stopped by armed anti-riot policemen were prevented from entering the villa from Yakubu Gowon crescent, Asokoro, Abuja.

The anti riot Police didn’t allow most of the protesters to join the ongoing protesters, they blocked the road right from the three arms zones to Police Headquarters junctions, they didn’t allow both vehicular and people walking to enter the Yakubu Gowon crescent, which was the take off point.

The protest which started around 3pm  was later addressed by the Minister of women Affairs, Hajia Zanaib Maina, said the federal Government is doing everything possible to ensure the safe release of the remaining 219 Government Secondary school, Chibok, Borno State from Boko Haram.

The Minister who was accompanied by Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe,  Minister of Environment, Mrs Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam, Minister of Land and Housing, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi,   represented President Goodluck Jonathan, said, “We are here to meet you because Mr. PRESIDENT

He cannot come out, he has meetings and since already you are out that’s why we are asked to come here and meet with you and to apologise for his inability to be here personally. But you can see we are all members of the Federal Executive Council” Maina said to the protesters.

Earlier the Coordinator of the group Dr. Oby Ezekwezili, while addressing the ministers, she  said “You have joined the Police who have prevented us from meeting our President and Commander- in- Chief, the Commissioner of Police did indicate we should wait and then we will be able to proceed to have the meeting.

“We had written the President as part of our global call to action concerning the rescue of the Chibok girls that we would be visiting him exactly on the day that marks six months of the Chibok girls abduction.

The group who also gave the Minister of women affairs 5 questions to be answered by Mr. President, asking for the whereabouts of the 219 chibok girls that were abducted on the 14th of April 2014.

A father of two missing girls from Government Secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, Mr. Enoch Mark, said since Cameroon can negotiate with Boko Haram and secured released of the 27 people that were kidnapped by Boko haram, why is Nigeria not negotiating the release of the remaining 219 girls that are still in captivity.

SOURCE: VANGUARD