In an interview on the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation,
former President Olusegun Obasanjo revealed today Thursday, that he could get in touch with
Boko Haram on the abduction of the school girls in the Chibok area of Borno State.
OBJ however said, he is yet to get the go ahead from the Federal Government.
Obasanjo said the Islamist militant sect might release a few of the girls who could be pregnantand find it difficult to cater for the babies in the forest.”I believe that some of them will never return.
We will still be hearing about them many years from now. Some will give birth, but if they cannot take
care of them in the forest, they may be released.”He also says according to Punch that the girls are
likely to be in different locations.
2 comments:
Is OBJ simply speculating or is he talking as an informed citizen? Is he privy to the abduction? Part of his statement on pregnant abductees is rather uncouth, unserious and typical of his mindset. Let us be more serious about these girls!
The former president speculates plausibly on a balance of probability. I recall posting 3 plausible outcomes for the abduction at incpetion of occurrence that the insurgents could utilise the abduction as 1. Human shield; 2. Sex slavery and 3. Breeding. The 3rd being the most fearsome as this leaves a valid prediction that several years to come, boko haram will still be alive, present and a threat to national security.
What it all boils down to is the failure of the security agencies to strategise effectively enough to not offer the opportunity for boko haram to have the upper edge over their military strength. But what can anyone do when the militay repertoire of the insurgents overwhelm that of the national forces, or the indecisiveness to 'go after' boko haram when the time was still there for intervention.
A shame these young women have had to be part of the systemic failure of the government, which makes their situation not any better than tens of thousands of casualties of bombings and shootings of innocent citizens.
The world is now waiting to see the outcome of western and eastern support for Nigeria.
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