Abuja - Nigeria’s Permanent
Representative to the UN, Prof.
Joy Ogwu, says the Federal
Government is still open to
negotiation to secure the
release of over 200 schoolgirls abducted in April.
In an interview with the CNN
on Friday in New York, and
monitored by the media in
Abuja, Ogwu said “terrorism is
a global problem that requires global solution.”
She was speaking on the latest
terrorist attacks in Kaduna and
Kano, which killed several
Nigerians and injured many
others. Ogwu said the international
community should use the
momentum created by the
Chibok schoolgirls’ kidnapping
to reflect and “go forward” in
the fight against terrorism. The media recalls that it is
now more than 100 days after
the schoolgirls were abducted
by Boko Haram terrorists in
Chibok, Borno.
“Instead of a military option, the strategy has widened to
include negotiation and
dialogue with these people.”
“I believe that it is time to
move forward really, to find a
solution to this problem, to find the girls first and
foremost,” Ogwu told the CNN.
The Nigerian UN envoy said the
nation had been traumatised
that the schoolgirls have been
kept by the terrorists for over three months.
She said Nigerians have not
given up hope on the release
of the girls as they have
persevered in prayer vigils,
protests and appeals to their abductors to free them.
“I believe that it is time for us
to get together in a concerted
action.”
“At the UN, where I am
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative, I made a
statement in 2011 when the
UN building in Abuja was
bombed.”
“I noted, very unequivocally,
that violence and suicide are not in the character of the
Nigerian.”
“This is an alien culture. It is an
external influence and it is
important to work concertedly
with all nations to make sure that it is not implanted in our
culture.”
“We forbid suicide as a people
and people who commit
suicide are not given a decent
burial.” “So, what indoctrination is
that, that persuades a young
person who is named a
terrorist to strap himself and
bomb people or to abduct
children?” “This is an alien indoctrination
and part of the strategy to deal
with it is to de-radicalise these
people.”
“They must be de-radicalised
to become normal people again,” Ogwu said.
According to the Human Rights
Watch, Boko Haram has so far
been responsible for the death
of 2 053 civilians in 95 attacks
during the first six months of this year.
In May, at the request of
Nigeria, the terrorist group
was added to the UN Security
Council's al-Qaeda-linked
organisations subject to an arms embargo and asset
freeze. http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/FG-still-open-to-negotiation-to-free-abducted-Chibok-schoolgirls-20140726

This is a mad house. When the Presidency had the opportunity to free all the girls in exchange to free wives and children arrested when security agencies could not find their husbands, Jonathan pulled out in the last minute. Now they want to sing Hakuna matata for us.

This is a mad house.