People
from Chibok community resident in Abuja and members of the
#BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), movement on Monday said they regretted voting
for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election.
They expressed their regrets on in Abuja
at a protest rally over the inability of the government to take
measures to rescue the over 200 school girls kidnapped by the terrorist
group, Boko Haram, in their school in Chibok, Borno State, 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 the Nigerian government
to accede to the demand of Boko Haram so that they would be released.
Speaking during the protest on Monday,
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.”
Speaking further, the community 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.”
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