FG says it’s teaching Chibok girls kidnapped during WASC exams proper English

Nigeria’s Federal Government has said that it is now teaching the 82 rescued Chibok girls how to speak English.

They are among the almost 300 senior secondary school students, abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State in 2014, while undertaking the SSC examinations.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, in Abuja on Tuesday when she received the schoolgirls, from the Department of State Services (DSS).

She added that the government has also hired the services of 20 teachers to help the girls with remedial classes.

Since their rescue on May 6, 2017 the 82 girls have been kept in a health facility under the supervision of the DSS, where they underwent medical tests and treatments.

But receiving the 82 girls on Tuesday, Alhassan said that the 24 girls released last year had improved on their spoken English and that the newly released 82 girls will also learn to speak good English after training.

“I thank the teachers and vocational trainers for training them. The 24 girls who could not speak good English, can now speak good English and I am sure by the time they handle the new ones (82), they will also speak good English and will be able to pass JAMB , WASSCE and NECO when they go back to school.”

She further revealed that the girls will be kept by the government till when a new school session starts in September, explaining that medical tests carried out on them showed that they are both medically
and psychologically stable.

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“The therapy will go on for four months till September when they will be enrolled in school,” she added.

The Chibok girls were reportedly kidnapped on April 14, 2014 from Government Secondary School, Chibok while they were making preparation to sit for the West African Senior School Certificate
Examination.

The claims of teaching the girls how to speak English have attracted knocks from some Nigerians who still claim that the Chibok schoolgirls kidnap and rescue was a sham.

Labour party had last week also claimed that the girls were never kidnapped but that it was all a plot to sack former President Goodluck Jonathan by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

 

 

 

 

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