Nelson A. Osuala[17 October 2016]
The federal Government through her spokesperson, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to Nigerians to refrain from exaggerating the Chibok girls saga.
The honourable minister of information, noted regrettably, that the unbridled tongue of most media socioeconomic and political analysts as well as commentators on the media have in the past 'created a bottle neck' in the Government's sincere attempts at rescuing the supposedly lost Chibok girls.
He argued that often times than not, all efforts at rescuing the girls have proven abortive due to the inability of most commentators and analyst to manage vital information.
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NHB garnered that the honourable minister made this appeal yesterday at a special thanksgiving church service and reunion of the just released 21 girls in Abuja, while emphasizing that remaining Chibok girls still in captivity.
In his words:
“There are many reckless analysts and commentators who are not helping the situation. We still have many of our children in captivity. Therefore, we have to be careful with the kind of comments we make.
”We must not make comments that will make the release of these girls difficult or impossible,” he said.
Alhaji Mohammed, reminded his audience as well as Nigerians in general that said, the doubting Thomas' who never believed in the present administration's promise of the safe rescue of the long abducted girls and their reunion with their parents will now be left to amazement and disappointment!
According to him,
“When the President said that the Boko Haram saga will not be closed until all the girls abducted have been released and reunited with their families safely, those who doubted did not believe us so we thank God this day has come,”.
He however denied some unfounded gossips making rounds that 18 amongst the 21 freed girls are pregnant and also that they were brutally radicalised and molested by the Boko Boys.
The honourable minister further suggested in the same vein, that there are plans in the cooler by the Federal government to rescue the rest of the girls this is premised upon the fact that the Boko Haram insurgents are already "throwing in the towel" as they seek to negotiate release of 83 more girls.
Expect further updates from this story.
Nelson A. Osuala
Is a Blogger & the Associate Editor of Negroidhaven.org
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