Former Minister of Education,
Oby Ezekwesili on Monday, February 1, 2016 has challenged President Muhammadu
Buhari to always tell Nigerians the truth when it comes to insurgency so as to
stop creating confusion and complications among Nigerians.
The leader of the
BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, movement made the call at the group’s usual sit-out in
Abuja.
Ezekwesili said;
“The government cannot afford
to go to the old ways where lies were fed to the people. Let there be
truthfulness. Government should not create a trust deficit syndrome because it
will be difficult to mend. Everything that the government is doing concerning
the war, they should tell the truth. We will get used to it and join in the
solution.”
“What drove us out of our
comfort zone is that we got tired of not doing anything. We will continue with
our core value. No matter what anyone want to do, this advocacy will continue.
A pledge is a pledge. We made a pledge to parents of the Chibok girls and will
not fail in this pledge.”
“We have gone through a lot.
But what we have gone through is little of what the 219 girls are going through
in the hands of the Boko Haram sect. Let nobody succeed in making us feel we
should not continue. We will continue until the girls are back. The girls
deserve justice and they have not been given justice. We are unhappy that they
are spending close to two years in the hands of the terrorists.”
“I have not lost hope. There is
no basis to lose hope. Though we might be depressed sometimes, we won’t lose
hope. We will stand for the girls. We will hold on to the commitment the
president made to the Chibok girls’ parents and Nigerians. We believe that he
will keep his promise and bring the girls back.”
“Some people have been vocal
about our Chibok girls, but now they feel the Chibok girls are distractions.
Our Chibok girls are not distractions,” she said.
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