Atiku Abubakar, former Vice
President, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal
government of failing to protect the 110 girls abducted by Boko Haram from
Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state.
The former Vice President said
the APC government failed to use 150,000 policemen guarding VIPs to protect the
abducted schoolgirls.
In a chat with ThisDay, the
Waziri of Adamawa described government’s failure to protect the girls as
‘carelessness.’
He called on the authority to
take firm action to forestall a recurrence in the country.
According to Abubakar, ”Let me
paraphrase Oscar Wilde and say that to lose one set of girls to Boko Haram may
be regarded as a misfortune; to lose another set, looks like carelessness.
”As an opposition party, the APC
was vocal to the point of exploiting the issue of the Chibok girls’ kidnapping.
They did not cut the Jonathan administration any slack.
”They criticised that government
every step of the way and some may even claim that they undermined the then
government’s efforts at resolving that unfortunate incident.
”So, it is rather surprising that
a set of people who were so unsparing in their critique of the previous
government would be in a situation whereby they have allowed these same
terrorists to kidnap 110 girls.
”What would I have done
differently? Recently, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Chief
Mike Okiro, revealed that 150,000 policemen were guarding various elites and
those we know as ‘big men’.
”If I had my way, I would have
recalled all of those 150,000 policemen who are not performing core police
duties and send them to provide security for every school in the North-East
region. That to me would be a better use of their time and services.
”We already know that Boko Haram
has an agenda to cripple Western education in Nigeria. So, how could we have
left those schools unguarded? Why should the police be guarding VIPs who can
afford personal guards and leave vulnerable girls unguarded?
”We are spending billions trying
to encourage girls to go to school only to allow them be abducted by
terrorists. I condemn these abductions and I urge the federal government to
take firm action to ensure that it would never reoccur in Nigeria.”
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