Chibok parents task Jonathan on 2 LGs still held by B’Haram

The media, last week, reported a group claiming to represent Chibok as saying that the community wanted the girls rescued not reconstruction of burnt schools.

But the parents, who were received by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said those who addressed the press in Maiduguri rejecting the reconstruction of burnt schools did not represent the grieving parents of the Chibok girls.

He noted that many other schools in the area had been destroyed by the insurgents and that the community welcomes steps being taken by the Federal Government to rebuild them in order to ensure children in the area resumed studies.

He said: “Our prayers are with our daughters and we hope and pray to see them very soon. We need them home and soonest, but this will not stop us from agreeing with the fact that we need our school rebuilt as we hopefully await their arrival home. Within the community have children that are redundant at home who have not been able to go to school.”

Members of the Chibok community, yesterday, sent a delegation to President Goodluck Jonathan to urge greater government efforts at re-taking the remaining areas of Borno State still held by Boko Haram, with the hope of rescuing their daughters who were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School , GGSS, Chibok, last year.

The delegation was led by Malam Dunamo Mpur Chibok, Chairman of the Parents-Teachers Association, PTA, of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok.

“We are concerned that the military said that they have not got information about our daughters in the areas they have recaptured. We want the Federal Government to expedite action to clear the remaining two local government areas as we hope and a wait the rescue of our daughters, “Malam Chibok said.

The PTA chairman disowned reports that the community rejected the reconstruction of GGSS Chibok and other schools destroyed by Boko Haram in the area.