Anti-Riot Policemen Stop #BringBackOurGirls Protesters from Marching to Aso Rock
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Posted On Oct 14, 2014
The plan by the BringBackOurGrils to march on to the presidential villa to have a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan over the fate of the 219 Chibok girls still in the captivity of the Boko Haram sect was stopped by Anti-Riot policemen of the FCT police command on Tuesday.
The protes which was originally meant to kick-off at the Unity Fountain, venue of the daily sit-out of the group was moved to Giwa park in Asokoro following the discovery that a rented crowd believed to be doing the bidding of the government had taken over the venue in apparent readiness to stop the protersters from forging ahead with their plans.
The Minister who was accompanied by Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, Minister of Environment, Mrs Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam, Minister of Land and Housing, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi, said, “We are here to meet you because Mr.
He cannot come out, he has meetings and since already you are out that’s why we are asked to come here and meet with you and to apologise for his inability to be here personally. But you can see we are all members of the Federal Executive Council” Maina said to the protesters.
“Even though you wrote a letter to the President, he can ask us to come and address you. That’s why we are here to address all of you here. You want to meet with Mr. President and find out why up till now the girls have not been rescued back to be reunited with their family. We are here to reassure you as a responsible government, there’s no government in the world that will sit back and be comfortable while the citizens of the country are abducted and we don’t know their condition.
“The government is doing all it can to make sure that these girls are rescued and back to their families alive. It is not as if the government is sitting back and watching”.
Maina continued, “Government is trying all it could to make sure that these girls are brought back. They are our daughters. We are all mothers; as much as it hurts you, it hurts us even the fathers. You know as well as we do some of you are very much aware of the efforts that the government has been making to make sure that these girls our daughters are brought back alive.
“There are some technicality issues that border on security, we are all know that our military personnel are out there in the bush doing what they can. It is not that they cannot force themselves in there but they have some technical ways of doing their things which we civilian do not know. ”
Earlier the Coordinator of the group Dr. Oby Ezekwezili, told the minister that the group had written the President as part of its global call to action concerning the rescue of the Chibok girls that they were visiting him exactly on the day that marks six months of the Chibok girls abduction.
“We have come to join up and have that meeting so that we can listen to Mr. President and convey to him the incredible urgency that we we desire concerning the rescue of the Chibok girls and to hear from Mr. President what exactly is going on concerning the rescue of the Chibok girls. We are not sure why we are not being allowed to proceed to see Mr. President and so we need to get answers to that.”
The group gave the Minister of women affairs 11 questions to be answered by Mr. President, asking for the whereabout of the 219 chibok girls that were abducted on the 14th of April 2014.
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