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By John Darlington

In the run-up to 2015 general elections part of the campaign promises of the All Progressives’ Congress was a double assurance that should they have our votes and be voted into power the abducted girls in the dead of the night from a school dormitory at Chibok will be rescued and reunited with their families. This sounded encouraging and thus drew the attention of Nigerians and the international community.

The then federal government under former President Jonathan was seen as none other than a clueless regime that must be jettisoned at all costs and this was followed by growing impatience as the nation waited anxiously for May 29 to send the administration packing and as luck would have it this was achieved by instrumentality of the ballot box in the general elections that took place on March 28 this year.

‘Chibok girls’ as they are fondly called was used to score cheap political points and so much noise was made. The former President everyone would recall had his reservations when the news of the ‘abductees’ first hit the nation’s airwaves. It soon made news headlines and was widely reported by the world press and former President Jonathan was given two options either he produces the girls which his ‘cluelessness’ has occasioned or immediately relinquishes his hold on power.



Several demonstrations by Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora commenced to pressurize President Jonathan to produce the abductees. I too was enraged in no small measure against the seeming inaction of the former administration under President Jonathan considering the agonizing pains the parents were passing through over the sudden loss of their children to the devil-may-care jihadist insurgents.

The All Progressives’ Congress held tenaciously to this Chibok story and had everyone taken in that gave them that magnetic pull. As luck would have it, the elections were held which, reports say, they won by a landslide. Buhari assumed the reign of power on May 29, 2015, and six calendar months on nothing has been said about the Chibok girls or the efforts in place to rescue them from their abductors and the story is gradually disappearing like a fading star in the firmament.

The babel of voices that trailed the abduction of the girls have suddenly become extinct and the parent’s like receding hills have thinned out. Ah… this brings so many things to the mind of this author. Could we have been fooled with the Chibok story by a cast of neophyte actors to solicit for votes all in a bid to get to power? Did they really deserve our votes? Life appears to be going increasingly uphill in Nigeria since they took over power about six months ago amid pleas for patience by the Nigerian regime inAbuja and this leaves me astounded in no small measure.

What about what looked like sponsored protests at the period under sad review? Who were the people whose services were retained? How much were they paid for this massive fraud, hypocrisy, and a range of elaborate deceptions?

This writer can infer that lies, deceit were designed on whose back they rode to power in that nothing has been heard about the parents nor the relatives of the purported abductees. Buhari who capitalized on the Chibok story to attract our votes has suddenly gone as quiet as he could be. This is very disheartening!

Now the question is: Were there ever abductees from a secondary grammar school dormitory at Chibok? Why has the fiery noise eventually thinned out? Were the Chibok girls mere non-existent spooks and phantoms, a mere hallucinatory, delusional fantasy designed to bamboozle the generality of Nigerians in a criminal bid to solicit for votes? We have a burning desire to know.

Iyoha John Darlington, a scholar, social activist, public commentator on national and global issues writes from Turin, Italy.

http://ugowrite..com.ng/2015/11/chibok-girls-never-existed.html

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we all know its a scam, how a truck load of girls passed all checkpoints in borno and weren't seen leaves one pondering.

only the gullible fell for that scam. and to oby more girls have been kidnapped few days ago

Politics

Let them come and explain this on Channels,Ait and TVC what they really mean

thunder74:
We stumbled on this article on a page with the heading MUST READ - News and Essays. It seems to be bringing a perspective to the naughty issue of the kidnap of over 200 girls from Chibok in April 2014.

Read article below and feel free to share your thought by commenting

=============

By John Darlington

In the run-up to 2015 general elections part of the campaign promises of the All Progressives’ Congress was a double assurance that should they have our votes and be voted into power the abducted girls in the dead of the night from a school dormitory at Chibok will be rescued and reunited with their families. This sounded encouraging and thus drew the attention of Nigerians and the international community.

The then federal government under former President Jonathan was seen as none other than a clueless regime that must be jettisoned at all costs and this was followed by growing impatience as the nation waited anxiously for May 29 to send the administration packing and as luck would have it this was achieved by instrumentality of the ballot box in the general elections that took place on March 28 this year.

‘Chibok girls’ as they are fondly called was used to score cheap political points and so much noise was made. The former President everyone would recall had his reservations when the news of the ‘abductees’ first hit the nation’s airwaves. It soon made news headlines and was widely reported by the world press and former President Jonathan was given two options either he produces the girls which his ‘cluelessness’ has occasioned or immediately relinquishes his hold on power.



Several demonstrations by Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora commenced to pressurize President Jonathan to produce the abductees. I too was enraged in no small measure against the seeming inaction of the former administration under President Jonathan considering the agonizing pains the parents were passing through over the sudden loss of their children to the devil-may-care jihadist insurgents.

The All Progressives’ Congress held tenaciously to this Chibok story and had everyone taken in that gave them that magnetic pull. As luck would have it, the elections were held which, reports say, they won by a landslide. Buhari assumed the reign of power on May 29, 2015, and six calendar months on nothing has been said about the Chibok girls or the efforts in place to rescue them from their abductors and the story is gradually disappearing like a fading star in the firmament.

The babel of voices that trailed the abduction of the girls have suddenly become extinct and the parent’s like receding hills have thinned out. Ah… this brings so many things to the mind of this author. Could we have been fooled with the Chibok story by a cast of neophyte actors to solicit for votes all in a bid to get to power? Did they really deserve our votes? Life appears to be going increasingly uphill in Nigeria since they took over power about six months ago amid pleas for patience by the Nigerian regime inAbuja and this leaves me astounded in no small measure.

What about what looked like sponsored protests at the period under sad review? Who were the people whose services were retained? How much were they paid for this massive fraud, hypocrisy, and a range of elaborate deceptions?

This writer can infer that lies, deceit were designed on whose back they rode to power in that nothing has been heard about the parents nor the relatives of the purported abductees. Buhari who capitalized on the Chibok story to attract our votes has suddenly gone as quiet as he could be. This is very disheartening!

Now the question is: Were there ever abductees from a secondary grammar school dormitory at Chibok? Why has the fiery noise eventually thinned out? Were the Chibok girls mere non-existent spooks and phantoms, a mere hallucinatory, delusional fantasy designed to bamboozle the generality of Nigerians in a criminal bid to solicit for votes? We have a burning desire to know.

Iyoha John Darlington, a scholar, social activist, public commentator on national and global issues writes from Turin, Italy.

http://ugowrite..com.ng/2015/11/chibok-girls-never-existed.html

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No more Abuja and citywide daily rally again. Newspapers and media outfits stopped counting up or down of the missing days in one corner of their papers and screens.
No more crying parents....
No more Shettima (don't hear his name again self) daily CNN interview again.
Everywhere is just calm as if they have been "found".
I said it, it was all scam and arranged to get GEJ out.

Whatever a man sows, he shall reap.

The harvest of troubles shall force them into confessjon.

Weda twas a scam or not. D truth will surely b revealed.

That's all we already know

thunder74:
No more Abuja and citywide daily rally again. Newspapers and media outfits stopped counting up or down of the missing days in one corner of their papers and screens.
No more crying parents....
No more Shettima (don't hear his name again self) daily CNN interview again.
Everywhere is just calm as if they have been "found".
I said it, it was all scam and arranged to get GEJ out.

The Guardian newspaper still counts.

what abt the live cast of the girls reciting the holy quran ? Bbc showed it,is dat one still scam ?boko haram flag was everywhere!

The writer is in Turin writing balderdash.

If his child was kidnapped,he wouldn't have typed this nonsense. I didn't bother to read this because I KNOW they were kidnapped. Who no go no know.

despite all the camps the army has conquered in sambisa and all the women in their hundreds they rescued not even a single one was from chibok,maybe those girls in the videos are those poor girls kidnapped furing their village raids..are the chibok girls so beautiful that bokoharam built a special camp for them..U.S drone has searched sambisa and did not find the girls infact the way international countries backed out was as if they knew something that we did not know,if it was a scam then the pit they dug may they fall in it and if not may they be rescued

we know it was a SCAM,
please kindly explain the Biafra flag in the pix.

Asari Dokubo said it, no one listened.

Please where Aunty oby, she should come protest again because more girls was kindaped yesterday or is she tired. Maybe she has been used and dumped.

For real? Wetin we com dey find since na? Lalasticlala com hear wetin des ppl dey yan o! On my birthday for dat matter,..

Hmm...I dont know what to believe anymore..

Check my profile for unanswered questions about the chibok girls
https://www.nairaland.com/2589201/chibok-girls-unanswered-questions--by-dr

that is true

APC must bring back chibok girls it was part of the campaign promises.

Chibox girls is Shetimas abracadabra and used to draw a line of best fit for bokoharam and biafra to incinerate Nigeria.

All those sh*ts were political. Where is oby and her campaigns, all dead and gone

I believe there was an incident at Chibok. What I don't believe is the number of kidnapped girls. Where I started smelling orchestrated script by politicians was where some of the girls that escaped were spirited away to USA. It reeks of scam especially when a lot of abducted people have been rescued from Boko haram and not even one of the girls were among. But you pause to ask; why did Boko haram admit having the girls? That's the punch in the whole saga.

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From day 1 i never believed the scam. All politics to make GEJ look incompetent. Well now they have power. What have they done wit it One day people wud revolt nd round up all politicians nd past leaders and ......

Shame on Oby Ezekwesili...
A woman that was previously held in high esteem allowed herself to be manipulated,used,discarded like an old habit.
When people say being educated doesn't necessarily mean being wise,they know what they're saying.

chai there is God oooooo...this scam u people are doing in borno God will judge u

but trending now is #bringbackbamgirls and this is very real!!!

a miserable death awaits oby..

I don't believe this, this is a Photoshop work on the paper, and chibok girls missing is true, not a lie, even if its not Photoshop then it is an arranged work, I don't buy this guys...

There are holocaust deniers - so the misplaced views canvassed here does not come as a surprise.

Only those who are cursed with dense stupidity would continue to believe that hundreds of young girls were abducted at Chibok.