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The Obama administration made a huge miscalculation in forcing regime change in Libya, spreading terror and weapons to neighboring African states. The rise in better weapons for groups in Mali, Algeria, Niger and Nigeria is one phenomena. As i have written before about the armed militants of Boko Haram in Nigeria …
(Sahara Reporters) Apr. 17, 2014 – There is controversy over the rescue of abducted school girls in Borno with the state government and the school principal faulting the military’s claim that most of the pupils have been freed. The claim by military officials in Abuja on Wednesday that 107 abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok were freed is a huge lie, Borno government officials, the management of the school and residents have said.
The Principal of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Asabe Kwambura, told Premium Times Thursday morning that the military’s claim was false.
“There is nothing in the military statement that is true about our abducted girls,” Mrs. Kwambura said. “Up till now we are still waiting and praying for the safe return of the students; all I know is that we have only 14 of them, and the security people especially the Vigilante and the well meaning volunteers of Gwoza are still out searching for them.”
“The military people too are in the bush searching. So we have not received any information that they have gotten the students yet. So let it be clear that all the information passed on the media by the military concerning 107 girls is not true.
“I, as the principal did not tell any body any figure on released students other than what our Governor, His Excellency Kashim Shettima had informed the media.”
The Principal said she was contacted by the military headquarters in Abuja yesterday and some person was asking her to confirm the number of girls released.
“I told them that I don’t want to be seen to be contradicting myself on that because what the governor said was what we know about; and I told them there may be additional rescue of the girls, but up to this moment we have not received any of them apart from what we had before,” the principal said.
“What the governor said is still the true picture of the whole issue and that information given by the military is totally wrong.”
The military spokesperson at the Defence Headquarters, Major General Chris Olukolade, had Wednesday issued a statement claiming that 107 abducted girls were freed; adding that only eight of the girls were still missing and the military was searching for them.
He also claimed that a member of the Boko Haram sect that participated in the abduction was also nabbed by the military. Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima was also quoted by the BBC Hausa service this morning faulting the claims of the military.
Global protest mounts to pressure Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan
(CNN) –Protesters took the streets again Sunday, adding to the international pressure on Nigeria do more to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by militants.
Crowds from Los Angeles to London rallied on Saturday, carrying posters reading #BringBackOurGirls — a campaign that began on Twitter after the mass abduction of the girls by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram last month. In Washington, protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to denounce what they described as a poor response by the Nigerian government to rescue the girls.
On Sunday, about 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Nigerian High Commission in London again, where they chanted “Bring them back!” as well as “Not for sale!” and “African lives matter!”
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President Goodluck Jonathan criticized the girls' parents for not "cooperating fully with police." (CNN)The mainly female crowd, from young girls to older women, also carried banners that read “These are our sisters” and “No child born to be taken.”
The social media campaign has gained momentum with celebrities, such as singer Mary J. Blige, offering their support. Education advocate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who made a miraculous recovery after being shot in the head by the Taliban, posed in a picture with the #BringBackOurGirls poster.
On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to step up efforts to find the girls, who were kidnapped April 16 from a school in Chibok, in the country’s rural northeast.
Amid mounting international pressure, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan spoke Sunday about his government’s efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by militants.
“Wherever these girls are, we’ll get them out,” he said, acknowledging that officials don’t know where they are. The President criticized the girls’ parents for not cooperating fully with police.
- ○ Nigeria Katsina State and Sharia Law Dec. 27, 2009
○ Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka: Jonathan allowed insurgency to fester
Africa has seen the Algerian hostage crisis, in Mali the insertion of the French legionnaires armed forces to repel Al Qaeda fighters from the North and multiple kidnappings from Somalia, Kenia, Niger to Cameroon. Glad there is no dicussion [with Joe] on this matter anymore – Seriously, Dr. Kissinger, do you have any democratic leanings at all?.
