A group on Monday alleged that elders in
the North were behind the kidnap of the female pupils of the Government
Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
The group, United Alliance, in a
statement by its northern co-ordinator, Bashir Ado, said the abduction
of the school girls was part of the agenda of the northern elders to
embarrass President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ado, who spoke ahead of Wednesday’s
planned protest by women in the Federal Capital Territory to press for
the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls, said the protesters should
not direct their grievance at the President, saying Jonathan had nothing
to do with the disappearance of the girls.
He said, “The disappearance of the girls
is part of the Northern elders agenda to embarrass and distract the
Goodluck Jonathan government.
“They deliberately took the girls away
to create an impression of insecurity and paint the picture that nobody
is safe in the country, whereas they are the architect of these self-
inflicting wounds aimed at distracting the government”
The group also said the authorities of
the kidnapped girls’ school should be questioned for defying an earlier
order of the Federal Government that schools in the area should shut
down.
It said the school authorities “deliberately ignored the government’s directive.”
It said, “There was an initial
instruction to school authorities in the area to evacuate students from
schools because of insecurity and the parents were aware of this. Why
then would the authorities of the school refuse to yield to such
sensitive instruction if there was no pre-conceived agenda to lash on
the perceived state of insecurity to organise the kidnap of their own
children and put the blame at the doorstep of the Federal Government.
“The co-ordinated media interviews the
mothers of the alleged missing girls have been granting showed that a
script is being acted.
“It is high time our leaders in the
North come to terms with the reality that this self inflicting havoc
will continue to deplete the value of Northerners and eventually rub us
of our place in the Nigerian nation.”
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