Parents of the 82 Chibok schoolgirls who were released after being held for more than three years by Boko Haram have arrived in Abuja to reunite with their children.
TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the Federal Government had through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the girls will soon reunite with their parents when photographs of the girls were sent to them (the parents) for identification.
In his words: “Chibok is not one village; the girls are from several communities. You need time to contact the parents. The Minister of Women Affairs has met with members of the Chibok association and they have been given pictures and names of the girls and in the next few days, we will get feedback.
“We don’t want a situation where somebody’s daughter, who is not there, will come all the way to Abuja only to be disappointed while the parents, whose daughters were actually rescued, would be left behind.
“So, it will take a few days to coordinate these things.”
TheNewsGuru.com recalls also that the Chairman, Chibok Community in Abuja, Mr. Hosea Tsambido, said some Chibok representatives, who met with the Federal Government last week, were given photographs of the girls while the representatives handed over the pictures of the released girls to the parents in Chibok for identification.
It was learnt that the concerned parents had been able to identify the girls and were therefore asked to come to Abuja to meet the girls on Friday.
Tsambido stated, “Many of the parents have identified their children through the photos and I was told that they are coming on Friday.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that mobilisation by the Federal Government for the concerned parents to meet with their daughters had started last week.