People
from Chibok community resident in Abuja and members of the #BringBackOurGirls
(BBOG), movement on Monday said they regretted voting for President Muhammadu
Buhari in the 2015 presidential election.
They expressed their
regrets on in Abuja at a protest rally over the inability of the government to
take measures to rescue the over 200 school girls kidnapped by the terrorist
group, Boko Haram, in their school in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014.
Boko Haram had last
week released a video of the girls who are still alive and said they were
willing to trade the girls in exchange for their members in detention in
various prisons.
One of the girls, Maida
Yakubu, who also spoke in the video asked their parents to beg the Nigerian
government to accede to the demand of Boko Haram so that they would be
released.
Speaking during the
protest on Monday, the chairman of the Chibok Community, Hosea Tsambido said
members of the Community and BBOG voted massively for Mr. Buhari as against his
predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, who they voted for in 2011.
“They tell us that our
girls seen in the latest video was merely an arrangement,” Mr. Tsambido said.
“No one has spoken to the family of any of the Chibok girls since the last video
was released, by the terrorists. We regret our votes. We regret it.”
Speaking further, the
community leader said, “We were promised that the president would visit
Sambisa, after becoming president. We were also told that within two weeks our
girls would be rescued.
“But over one year now,
there is no tangible statement about our girls. The presidency has stated
instead that it is confused.”
The
BBOG group said it was embarking on a fresh 14-day campaign to re-energize the
clamour for the rescue of the girls.
The protesters were
heading for the Presidential villa to speak with the president as they usually
do during their protests.
They were however,
stopped by a combined team of security personnel at the entrance of the three
arms zone.
The group said the
current administration has ran out of excuses regarding the return of the
Chibok girls.
“No more excuses,” they
chanted several times.
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