Presidency Says Buhari’s Govt Not To Be Blamed For Not Bringing Back All Chibok Girls

The Presidency on Thursday, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration should not be held responsible for not rescuing all the kidnapped Chibok Girls.

Special Adviser to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina asserted Channels Television’s breakfast program, Sunrise Daily.

“It is like a self-accounting when you are exiting a position of public office to be humble enough to know that you have not done everything perfectly,” Adesina said during the program.

“In 2015, we knew where Nigeria was, today we know where we are… Two hundred and sixty-seven were spirited away, about 57 escaped immediately, and over 100 have been returned by the administration.

“The ones that are left, I think 90-something, they are Nigerians, they have the right to be brought back,” he said about the girls who were kidnapped in 2014.

“But then, if a government came in when the trail was already cold and you couldn’t trace where the girls were taken, you can’t then blame it solely for not bringing them back, that would not be quite right. Dapchi girls were taken under the administration, and within the week they were recovered except maybe five including Leah Sharibu sadly.”

According to the special adviser, the government was proactive to tackle the kidnap at the time it occurred, adding that the incoming should take up the responsibility to recover the girls.

“I believe that with the Chibok Girls, we should rather appreciate God and appreciate the government for what was achieved. It is not as if the government folded its hands and didn’t do anything, it did its level best.

“And because the government is a continuum, the incoming government, if it recovers more of those girls, the country will gladly receive them,” he said during the show.

In other news, Kanyi Daily reported that the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured a conviction of one Oluwayemisi Samuel and her Son, Joshua Samuel, before Justice A. A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on separate one-count charge each bordering on false information.

Oluwayemisi and Joshua squandered the sum of N5,600,000 on sports betting (Bet9ja) and caused a false petition to be sent to the EFCC, alleging that the money was fraudulently withdrawn from their Opay account to a sports betting account without their authorisation by an unknown individual.