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Goodluck Jonathan: # BringBackOurGirls 'political' by Hangard: 7:33pm On Jul 15, 2014
Nigeria's president has accused
activists of "playing politics"
after his meeting with parents
of the abducted schoolgirls was
called off.
The #BringBackOurGirls group
should be ashamed of
manipulating "the victims of
terrorism", he said.
Mr Jonathan had been due to hold
his first meeting with some of the
girls' parents on Tuesday.
Islamist group Boko Haram
captured more than 200 girls
during a raid on their boarding
school in Chibok in April.
Mr Jonathan had been widely
criticised for failing to meet
distraught parents and not doing
enough to rescue the girls.
'Psychological terrorism'
#BringBackOurGirls was a global
campaign launched on social
media to secure the release of the
girls.
Mr Jonathan agreed to the
meeting on Monday following an
appeal by Pakistani rights
campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
Mr Jonathan had planned to meet
12 parents and five girls who
escaped shortly after being
captured but the parents
withdrew at the last minute
without giving any reason.
"Unfortunately, political forces
within the Nigerian chapter of
Bring Back Our Girls have decided
to take this opportunity to play
politics with the situation and the
grief of the parents and the girls.
They should be ashamed of their
actions," he said in a statement.
The girls have now spent more
than three months in captivity
"Those who would manipulate the
victims of terrorism for their own
benefit are engaging in a similar
kind of evil: Psychological
terrorism," he added.
Mr Jonathan's spokesman Doyin
Okupe said the president was
"extremely distraught".
"He cannot understand this. He
cannot fathom this - that Nigeria's
mothers will do this type of thing
for children," Mr Okupe said.
Nigeria is due to hold presidential
elections next year.
Mr Jonathan has not yet declared
his candidature, but speculation is
rife that he intends to run for
another term.
Last year, he declared a state of
emergency in the north-eastern
states of Borno, Adamawa and
Yobe, which are worst affected by
the insurgency.
All there are under opposition
control.
New York-based Human Rights
Watch says more than 2,000
civilians have been killed in
Nigeria this year by Boko Haram.
The deaths occurred in around 95
separate attacks in more than 70
towns and villages in the north-
east, where Boko Haram launched
its insurgency in 2009. http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28318259
Re: Goodluck Jonathan: # BringBackOurGirls 'political' by Hangard: 7:40pm On Jul 15, 2014
AND this are people whose daughter are missing. SHAME.

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