**CHEI !! WAHALA DE OH!!** FG Cant Make Promises – Okonjo-Iweala Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on May 13, 2014, Tuesday, said the Federal Government cant promise finding over 234 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. The minister made the assertion in response to the question asked by Katie Couric of Yahoo News. No one can answer that question. There is no one who can tell you with confidence. What we can tell you is that every single possible resource will be used to track these girls. You are dealing with people who are irrational Okonjo-Iweala said. The minister while reacting to the waves of criticism that trailed the Federal government slow response to the incident, said: the government did not communicate what it was doing previously, because there was some element of reticence so as not to cause harm to the girls. That should not have been the case, it should have been that there was communication so that the Nigerian public and the parents of these girls know that action is being taken. The minister added that: President Goodluck Jonathan has openly pledged his commitment to do everything to rescue these girls, and the government has stepped up action. It has appealed to the international community for help and is accepting help from the United States, France, the United Kingdom and China and they are all coming in. The government has stepped up the number of troops that are working there and is working with countries that have satellite imagery to do more she said. Okonjo-Iweala, when asked how trustworthy Jonathan is and why the abducted girls families seem to know where the girls are, and the government doesnt, she denied the claim as incorrect. They searched in the Sambisa forest, they were not using aerial surveillance, they were not able to find the girls. This is a large area and it is not clear whether they (abducted girls) are still together in a group or whether they have been split up, and the whole idea is that nothing should be done to harm the girls. In the past, the country has used some aerial surveillance but you can’t do that because you don’t want to end up harming the girls. When the finance minister was asked how the government intends to halt insurgents, who claimed western education is a sin, and therefore wants to stop women from acquiring education and getting jobs, she said: we are going to stop the extremists with a multi-prong approach. It is not a simple thing; there is the military angle, the insurgency angle, the political angle that has to be pursued and also there is the development angle where we have to give our young people hope and make sure that their school is not interfered with, that they feel more secure. SHARE/Tag your friends. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Report Any Suspicious Persons and objects to the Law Enforcement Agencies, As That Will Save Lives. Join The Equity And Just Awareness Campaign At Nigerian civil right movement Join Us For More Alert!! facebook/ncrmcomments Tweet with us at: twitter/ncrm123 Register At ncrmonline.org
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:25:16 +0000
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