People from
Chibok resident in Abuja and members of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG)
movement has said they regretted voting for President Muhammadu Buhari in the
2015 presidential election.
They expressed
their regrets on Monday in Abuja at a protest rally over the inability of
government to rescue most of the school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, in their
school in Chibok, Borno, in 2014.
Boko Haram had
last week released a video of the girls who are still alive and said they were
willing to trade the girls in exchange for their members in detention in
various prisons.
One of the girls,
Maida Yakubu, who also spoke in the video asked their parents to beg government
to accede to the demand of Boko Haram so that they would be released.
But speaking
during the protest today, the chairman of the Chibok Community, Hosea Tsambido
said members of the Community and BBOG voted massively for Mr. Buhari as
against his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, who they voted for in 2011.
“They tell us
that our girls seen in the latest video was merely an arrangement,” Mr.
Tsambido said.
“No one has
spoken to the family of any of the Chibok girls since the last video was
released, by the terrorists. We regret our votes. We regret it.”
The community
further said leader said, “We were promised that the president would visit
Sambisa, after becoming president. We were also told that within two weeks our
girls would be rescued.
“But over one
year now, there is no tangible statement about our girls. The presidency has
stated instead that it is confused.”
The BBOG group
said it was embarking on a fresh 14-day campaign to re-energize the clamour for
the rescue of the girls.
The protesters
were heading for the Presidential villa to speak with the president but were
stopped by a combined team of security personnel at the entrance of the three
arms zone.
The group said
this administration has ran out of excuses regarding the return of the Chibok
girls.
“No more
excuses,” they chanted several times
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