Jonathan: Going to Chibok solves no problem
President Goodluck Jonathan did not visit Chibok, Borno State, where 276 students were abducted last month, because the visit will not trigger the release of the girls.
Explaining his decision not to visit the school during a press conference in Paris on Saturday, Jonathan said his more pressing concern is to locate and rescue the girls.
“These girls are not held in Chibok. People want the president to go to Chibok,” he said at Elysee Palace, venue of the conference, which held at the end of the regional summit on security in Nigeria.
“If the president goes to Chibok today, it does not solve any problem. The problem facing the president and indeed the Nigerian Government is how to get these girls from wherever they are.”
He added that since his service chiefs had visited the area, attention has now fully shifted to freeing the girls from the grip of Boko Haram.
He said the Nigerian armed forces would be trained in order to build their capacity for containing terror, and he also dismissed allegations of corruption against the military, saying they are “exaggerated.”
I have to agree with him on this one..his main concern should be to bring these girls back safely ..if he gets security briefs from his service chiefs i think that it enough
Joe London._ I am sorry to hear the Governor of the the state calling on the President of the the country to tackle the problem in his state without first doing his duty as a state Governor , Has he shown how much effort he has made before calling the Federal Government ? . The Governar should be scrutinised to make sure he is not a member of BOKO HARAM . . I wander how a group can come to a village and collect the whole School without a tipoff from the Divisional Police Offiicer . Has the Governor not got a state Police Commissioner. What has the state Police commissioner said ? There is a group of them there who are only trying to undermine the President . Can people save our President from unnecessary embarassment Thank you .
Dis is nt but an act of corwadice! Can’t he go and console d parents of dis girls, can’t he go and motivate d military in deir rescue operation.