The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has promised to stage a protest
match to Chibok, Borno State, if the abducted schoolgirls were not released.
Jonathan said this in Abuja
after a meeting with governors’ and ministers’ wives, female senators,
commissioners and more than 200 women from various groups at the State House in
Abuja.
The meeting was to seek the
actual whereabouts of the kidnapped girls.
According to her, a committee
will be inaugurated to include wives of all relevant stakeholders at a meeting
scheduled for May 4.
She said that refusal of any
of such relevant stakeholders to be contacted for the meeting would also lead
to a mass protest.
“I cannot perpetuate hearsay
and rumour; I must have facts to tell the international community.
“We will set up a committee to
seek the truth as women.
“If any of those we call
refuse to come, we will take the protest to Chibok.
“I do not mind being shot as
long as they return our girls to us safely, we are tired of the kidnapping,”
she said.
Jonathan said that the first
ladies of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and various other countries had called to ask
questions and offer assistance on the matter.
“They intimated me of their
readiness to help, they also asked me questions that I could not answer and as
women we are the last hope of this nation. We cannot fail our fellow women and
the nation.
“If need be, we will call on
the northern elders to help us so that our children and husbands will not die,”
Jonathan said.
The Head of WAEC, National
Office, Mr Charles Eguridu, at the meeting gave a clarification over the number
of students enrolled for the examination in the school.
Eguridu said that those
registered in the Government Girls School, Chibok include a total of 530 made
up of 395 girls and 135 boys.
“The school had been reverted
to a mixed school but the name remained Government Girls School.
“We were able to relocate 189
of the total number to write their exams at another village called Uba,”
Eguridu said.
Others who spoke at the
meeting included Mrs Yemisi Suswan, Sen. Nenadi Usman and Prof. Sarah Jibril.
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