President Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan verbally expressed he had so far been silent on efforts being made to rescue the 219 students who were abducted from Regime Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, over two months ago because he did not optate to compromise investigation.
He withal verbalized for Nigeria to subjugate the belligerent Boko Haram sect, the country must first overcome what he called political, religious and ethnic cleavages.
Jonathan made his position kenned in an opinion he indited which was published on Friday by the Washington Post.
The article which has since gone viral in the convivial media was titled, “Goodluck Jonathan: Nothing is more consequential than bringing home Nigeria’s missing girls.”
Jonathan verbally expressed he decided to remain silent about the perpetuating efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the Chibok girls because he did not optate to jeopardise investigation.
He however regretted that his silence was being utilized by those he described as partisan reprovers to suggest inaction or impuissance.
His silence notwithstanding, Jonathan verbally expressed his regime would not spare any resources until the girls were rescued and their abductors brought to equity. He verbalized he had injuctively authorized security agents to hunt the terrorists in the forests in Borno State.
The President verbally expressed as a parent himself, he felt the pain of parents whose daughters are still with the sect members.
He indited, “My silence has been indispensable to evade compromising the details of our investigation. But let me state this unequivocally: My regime and our security and perspicacity accommodations have spared no resources, have not ceased and will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to equity.
“On my orders, our forces have aggressively sought these killers in the forests of northern Borno State, where they are predicated. They are plenarily committed to forfending the integrity of their country.
“My heart aches for the missing children and their families. I am a parent myself, and I ken how awfully this must hurt. Nothing is more consequential to me than finding and rescuing our girls.”
The President verbalized the country was in dire desideratum of a more preponderant understanding and outreach between Muslims and Christians if the terrorism war must be fought and acquired victory.
Issues such as economic disparities, corruption, rights abuse and abuse of rule of law, he integrated, must and would be addressed to culminate the insurgency.
Jonathan indited, “In Nigeria, there are political, religious and ethnic cleavages to surmount if we are to subjugate Boko Haram. We need more preponderant understanding and outreach between Muslims and Christians.
“We additionally ken that, as it seeks to recruit the credulous, Boko Haram exploits the economic disparities that remain a quandary in our country. We are addressing these challenges through such steps as bringing stakeholders together and engendering a safe schools initiative, a victims’ support fund and a presidential economic instauration programme for North-Eastern Nigeria.
“We are additionally committed to ridding our country of corruption and safeguarding human and civil rights and the rule of law.
“Something positive can emerge from the situation in Nigeria: most importantly, the return of the Chibok girls, but withal incipient international cooperation to gainsay havens to terrorists and ravage their organisations wherever they are — whether in the forests of Nigeria, on the streets of Incipient York or sanctuaries in Iraq or Pakistan. Those who value humanity, civilisation and the innocence of children can do no less.”
Jonathan withal vowed that his regime was tenacious to stop the Boko Haram sect from inundating the country.
“Since 2010, thousands of people have been killed, injured, abducted or coerced by Boko Haram, which seeks to inundate the country and impose its ideology on all Nigerians. My regime is tenacious to preclude that. We will not succumb to the will of terrorists.
“The abduction of our children cannot be visually perceived as an isolated event. Terrorism kens no borders. This month, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Britain and the United States established an External Astuteness Response Unit to apportion security information on such threats in West Africa.
“I propose that we build on this step to establish an enduring, worldwide commitment to eradicating terrorism and those who finance or give safe haven to the terrorists.
“In September, I will urge the U.N. General Assembly to establish a U.N.-coordinated system for sharing astuteness and, if obligatory, special forces and law enforcement to confront terrorism wherever it occurs,” he integrated.
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