Special Adviser to the President
on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has asserted that Nigerians should not
hold the President Muhammadu Buhari administration responsible for not rescuing
all the kidnapped Chibok Girls.
It is like a self-accounting when
you are exiting a position of public office to be humble enough to know that
you have not done everything perfectly, Adesina said during Channels
Television’s breakfast program, Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
“In 2015, we knew where Nigeria
was, today we know where we are… Two hundred and sixty-seven were spirited
away, about 57 escaped immediately, and over 100 have been returned by the
administration.
“The ones that are left, I think
90-something, they are Nigerians, they have the right to be brought back,” he
said about the girls who were kidnapped in 2014.
“But then, if a government came
in when the trail was already cold and you couldn’t trace where the girls were
taken, you can’t then blame it solely for not bringing them back, that would
not be quite right. Dachi girls were taken under the administration, and within
the week they were recovered except maybe five including Leah Sharibu sadly.”
The special adviser stated that
the government was proactive to tackle the kidnap at the time it occurred,
adding that the incoming should take up the responsibility to recover the
girls.
“I believe that with the Chibok
Girls, we should rather appreciate God and appreciate the government for what
was achieved. It is not as if the government folded its hands and didn’t do
anything, it did its level best.
“And because the government is a
continuum, the incoming government, if it recovers more of those girls, the
country will gladly receive them,” he said during the show.
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