Your campaign is mere drama and political, Shettima blasts BBOG

The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, advocacy group has come under another scathing attack over the genuineness of their campaign for the freedom of the abducted students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

This time, the governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, on Friday, in Maiduguri, described the campaign by the group as mere drama and only a calculated political operation.

The governor spoke at the Government House, Maiduguri, when the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jumai Alhassan, visited him, berating the group for failing to visit Chibok community in any of their protest.

According to Shettima, it was shocking that none of the members of the BBOG have bothered to visit the community they are protesting for, concluding that
the whole creation of drama by the group through visiting of presidential villa is politically calculated.

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Shettima said: ”Just last week, we expended a whoping sum of N25 million for the education of the 56 Chibok school girls that escaped from Boko Haram and none of the members of BBOG has visited Chibok to know about the feelings of the parents of the girls.

”They can make a whole lot of noise from the comfort of Abuja. They can dramatize the whole thing. Some of them are former ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and know the protocol of visiting the President, but choose to dramatize their visit.

”Majority of victims of Boko Haram are women and children. In Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state, we have over 39,000 orphans and in Monguno local government area of the state, we have over 38, 000 of them and the same applies to other parts of the state. And yet no group or pressure group nor characters in the social media cares to know about this”, Shettima said to the Minister.

The governor also re-echoed what Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, said, cautioning that if nothing urgent is done to address the problem of these vulnerable gruop, some thing more than Boko Haram will consume the nation.

By Timothy Enietan-Matthews

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