President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday promised Miss Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was virtually killed by the Taliban in her country’s Swat Valley District, that he would anon meet with parents of the abducted pupils of Regime Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
Malala had been targeted by the Taliban because of her girl child edification campaign.
The Chibok girls had been abducted from their hostels by members of the bellicose Islamic sect, Boko Haram, since April 14.
Jonathan told the 17-year-old Pakistani girl that the abducted Chibok girls would anon regain their liberation and that his regime would grant scholarship to the girls to study in other components of the country.
Malala had paid the President a visit in Abuja as a component of her three-day visit to Nigeria.
The teenager disclosed what transpired between her and the President to State House correspondents at the cessation of the closed-door session.
She verbalized she intimated Jonathan with the subject of her earlier meetings with some of the girls that had eluded from Boko Haram custody and the parents of those who are still in captivity.
She verbalized she additionally conveyed the desire of the parents to meet with the President in order to apportion their stories with him.
Malala expressed the credence that the President would consummate all the promises made to her on the abducted girls.
She verbally expressed, “I am here in Nigeria on my 17th day of inception for a price which is to visually perceive that every child peregrinates to school. This year, my objective is to verbalize up for my Nigerian sisters, about 200 of them who are in the captivity of Boko Haram and I met President Goodluck Jonathan for this purport.
“I conveyed the voice of my sisters who are out of school or who are still under the abduction of Boko Haram. And for those girls who eluded from the abduction but still do not have edification. And in the meeting, I highlighted the same issues which the girls and their parents told me in the past two days.
“The parents verbalized they authentically wanted to meet with the President to apportion their stories with him. And I asked the President if he wanted to meet with the parents of the girls, the President assured me that he would meet with them.
“I verbalized with the President about the girls who repined that they could not peregrinate to school despite the fact that they optate to become medicos, engineers and edifiers. But the regime is not providing them any facility. They withal need health facility, security and the regime is not doing anything.
“Yesterday (Sunday), I withal met with the parents of these girls who are still under the abduction of Boko Haram and they were crying and hopeless. But still, they have this hope that there is still someone who can avail them.
“They asked me if there is any chance for them to meet the President because at this time, they require the President’s support, so I asked the President if it is possible for him to go and visually perceive them to inspirit them and the President did promise me that he will meet the parents of these girls.
“I am hopeful that these two promises, the return of the girls from Boko Haram captivity and meeting with their parents will be consummated and we will visually perceive it anon.”
She verbally expressed albeit she had received the assurances of the President on her requests, she would not stop verbalizing.
Malala verbalized she would be counting days and would be looking forward to when the abducted girls would return home.
“I can’t stop this campaign until I visually perceive those girls return back to their families and perpetuate the agitation. This is the position of the Malala Foundation,” she declared.
She verbally expressed during the meeting, Jonathan withal told her some of the difficulties being faced in government’s quest to rescue the girls.
She verbalized one of the challenges was that the girls could be targeted during military operation.
The campaigner, however expressed fears that politics could interfere in the fulfilment of the President’s promises.
“He has made promises but in politics nothing is pellucid. But the President verbalized these girls are his daughters and he is pained by their sufferings and that he has his own daughters and he can feel what they are feeling.,” she verbalized.
The Director of Operations, Malala Foundation, Eason Jordan, verbalized President Jonathan was inclined to meet with the parents of the schoolgirls any time from now.
Meanwhile, a verbal expression by Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, on Monday verbalized the Federal Regime had been constrained in rescuing the abducted schoolgirls by the overriding imperative of ascertaining that the girls’ lives were not imperilled in any rescue endeavor.
Abati quoted the President as saying during the meeting with Malala that the notion that the Federal Regime had not been doing enough to find and rescue the abducted girls was erroneous and misplaced.
He verbally expressed the regime was doing everything possible to ascertain that the girls were rescued alive and safely returned to their parents.
