BY Mansur Ibrahim
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.”
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