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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has assured members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) advocacy that more or all of the abducted Chibok school girls will be rescued soon.
The Acting President also informed the group that he had been meeting with security chiefs daily and making contacts with hostage negotiators across the world.
Osinbajo, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, spoke yesterday in Abuja. He was addressing members of the #BBOG.
He said the public was kept in the dark about the negotiations for security reasons.
Said Ojudu: “I have been asked by the Acting President to welcome the group. The Acting President would have received the group personally but he had to receive the President of Ghana.
“I’ve been asked to assure you of the suppprt of the government in your agitation for the return of all the girls that are still being held by terrorists in the Northeast.
“On the issue of the police women being held and the girls, the Acting President has been meeting on a daily basis with the security chiefs, making contacts with negotiators across the world who have helped in the past to help in the negotiation for the release of others. We have not for any moment fogotten the girls who could be any of our children.
“In the last two weeks, the acting President has helped coordinate the efforts at freeing the kidnapped boys in Lagos. He called on the deputy governors of Ondo and Delta states and security operatives to leave their jobs and go and search for the pupils and when they were rescued, he was the first person to be called.
“He said that the fact that we are not coming out to say what is being done is strategic and for security reasons negotiations are going on, efforts are being made and intelligence being gathered. Very soon, more of the girls, if not all, will be brought back to their parents safely.”
The leader of the #BBOG and former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili urged the Federal Government to send a delegation to the parents of the remaining Chibok girls to assure them that the Federal Government is not sleeping.
She said: “We want our government to spare no effort in immediately securing the release of the remaining Chibok girls; we want all the 113 girls to be brought back.”