The Senate on Tuesday
urged all the parties in the negotiation that led to the release of 21 of the
Chibok girls to ensure that other hostages in Boko Haram’s captivity were
rescued.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly,
while thanking those who negotiated the release of the 21 schoolgirls, noted
that a large number of abductions by the sect were not reported, adding that
the negotiators should look beyond the Chibok girls to rescue more victims.
Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, who
raised the matter on the floor of the Senate during Tuesday’s plenary, said no
fewer than 1,000 persons were in Boko Haram captivity.
Senator Abiodun Olujimi (Ekiti-South), who supported Ndume’s
motion, called on all stakeholders to work towards securing the release of all
abductees.
Olujimi warned that
there was the need to secure communities in the North-East so that those who
had been rescued would not be kidnapped again.
“We need to know that those girls are not going
back into captivity because they are going back to Chibok. If Chibok is still
not safe, it is something we also need to think about,” she stated.
Olujimi, however, took
a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari, who told his wife, Aisha, that she
belonged to “the kitchen, the sitting room and the other room,” when Aisha
criticised him in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation, Hausa
Service, recently.
She said, “We pray that as we stand, as girls,
not only in the kitchen but in the Senate and every important place, the men
will support us to achieve our goals and be able to aspire to be whatever we
want to be in Nigeria.”
Senator Binta Garba (Adamawa-North), however,
replied Olujimi, saying, “That (kitchen) is my primary constituency; to be in
the kitchen before even being in the Senate. As a woman, I am proud to be in
the kitchen and even the other room.”
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