😒After Three Years Of Abduction, Buhari Hints On Return Of All Chibok Girls

Exactly three year after Boko Haram terrorists abducted more than 200 girls in Chibok town of Maiduguri, President Buhari has spoken about his commitment to ensuring the safe release of the remaining missing schoolgirls.

Buhari, in a personal statement on Thursday, said his government is in constant touch with their captors through local intelligence and international organisation to secure the release of the remaining girls and other abducted persons unharmed.

He noted that Nigerians have had reason to celebrate the return of twenty-four of the chibok girls and thousands of other Nigerians who were forcibly abducted by the terrorists.

The President assured all well-meaning Nigerians, organisations and the international community that “as a government, we are unrelenting on the issue of the safe return of our children.

Read Buhari’s statement below:

On April 14, 2014, Nigeria suffered one of the worst crimes committed against its citizens – the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by the vicious terrorist and insurgent group, Boko Haram.

Upon the inception of this administration in May 2015, it will be recalled that this militant group occupied no fewer than 14 Local Government Areas in the North East of the country and posed a serious threat to other parts by unleashing fear and mayhem through the use of surprise and suicide bombing.

The menace of this terrorist group was a great challenge to the resolve of our administration to implement the Change Agenda. We, therefore, pledged to reverse the situation, which constituted a threat to the sovereignty of the country.

We were determined to secure the release of the Chibok girls and others forcefully abducted from their homes and communities and retake the occupied territories.

Determined to secure the freedom of the abducted girls and recover lost territories, this administration gave the necessary political and logistical backing which energised gallant members of our armed forces and other security agencies to overrun the headquarters of Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest and scatter the terrorists from their strong base.

Today, the group has been degraded and is no longer in a position to mount any serious, coordinated attack, other than sporadic suicide attacks on soft targets. Even at that, their reach is very much confined to a small segment of the North East where they had previously held sway unchecked.

Nigeria and indeed the entire world, must however, recognise that terrorism has no borders and remains a growing concern which calls for collective efforts to curtail. I, therefore, call on all Nigerians and residents in the country, to remain extra vigilant and report any suspicious element or group to the security agencies. We cannot afford to let down our guards. Under my watch, no group will hold the country to ransom.