Responding to the letter of invitation to Sambisa forest sent to the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group by the information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the group demanded to hold a prr tour meeting with the National Security Adviser (NSA), Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and other personalities billed for the forest tour as stated in the letter.

The reply read in part.....


We write to thank you and acknowledge your letter on the above subject, dated January 11, 2017 which we received by email transmission yesterday, January 12, 2017. We had an emergency meeting of our Movement to discuss your invitation to embark on a “guided tour” of the Nigerian Air Force Command (Yola) and Sambisa Forest with officials of the government.

Our members unanimously agreed that the Movement is open to exploring the opportunity for a visit to the North-East theatre of war as presented in your invitation. However, before proceeding with further discussions on the proposed visit, we propose a pre-tour meeting to discuss pertinent issues that will help inform our decision to proceed.

We believe that this prior meeting would help provide first-hand knowledge of, and answers to questions that our movement wishes to raise ahead of the guided visit.

We propose that participants at the meeting be the National Security Adviser to the President and the other officials of government indicated in your letter. These are: 1. The Minister of Defence, 2. The Chief of Army Staff, and 3. The Chief of Air Forces. Furthermore, we wish to raise a matter critical to our proposed meeting. Only two days ago, the Federal Government owned News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) widely reported, through the mass media, that during a visit to the Army Headquarters by a certain group which was received by the Chief of Army Staff, our Movement was attacked for engaging in “social advocacy terrorism.”

It is puzzling that the reported said visit happened less than forty-eight hours before our Movement received your letter asking us to travel in the company of the same Chief of Army Staff to Sambisa Forest.

We demand therefore that ahead of the pre-tour meeting we have proposed herein, that the Chief of Army Staff retracts and apologizes for endorsing such slanderous attacks against our Movement #BringBackOurGirls and specifically at some of our leaders.

Such a step would communicate that it is with goodwill that the Federal Government is asking us to entertain the visit proposed in your letter. For 990 days, our Movement has singularly advocated for the return of our Chibok daughters who were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram during an insurgency that has raged in North-Eastern Nigeria for over eight years. For nearly three years, our movement has demonstrated the utmost decorum and civility by ensuring that our advocacy follows due process and upholds the core values that we developed early on in our campaign.

We assure you that we shall remain on the path of our core values of Hope, Unity, Motivation, Affability, Nationalism, Integrity, Transparency, Empathy, Equity, Discipline, and Sacrifice. We are available to attend the pre-tour meeting we have proposed as soon as we receive a date from you.

We look forward to receiving your reply at your earliest convenience to enable us adequately plan for our members that will attend the pre-tour meeting with you and your designated colleagues.

https://www.thecable.ng/bbog-writes-lai-lists-condition-will-make-tour-sambisa

Ok o
Social media govt
Must we see every govt act on social media sef?

Lemme just be watching in 3d

Wetin concern me...

Scam everywhere

Looking as the drama unfolds

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We af hear

Is afraid catching them or what

Ok what next

Are they afraid? Chibok girls ultimate search. They should be wary of IEDs and landmines oh.

This is just the beging

ok

Observing. Oya oga Lai, reply wit a set of Lies as to why d pre-tour meeting is unnecessary. Sarrki n related buhari defenders, Oya e gbera

Madam Due Process

good

This BBOG group is loosing relevance and gradually becoming nuisance.

Can this government focus on good governance once in their life time ...sambazi forest that as big as a state.. .

Let them go and also provide video footage of the journey for all to see so that we will believe they really went and not just sipping kunu at yola and telling us they were at samosa.

Nigeria politics and wayo na 5&6

Our girls are all back ryt

Hmm

Make we dey look...

I dont give a damn!

Chibok girls are not the only girls still in captivity of Boko Haram, there are several other Muslim girls and women under their captivity.

So the movement is not sincere to those other girls.

Thought they always wanted to march to sambisa. Nice gesture Lai mohd

Very very good development..

Yet they were written a letter to embark on such tour. Abeg, which important letter u don receive for ur entire life.

Masquerade7:
This BBOG group is loosing relevance and gradually becoming nuisance.

BboG !! Advocacy terrorism ??

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If our military now controls Sambisa desert (that one no be forest), where then are the remaining Chibok girls?

De want to discuss their Allowance and mobilization

What will the tour add to our economic? Will it reduce the high cost of living and daily increase of prices of goods and services?

wolesmile:
Wait o..



If our military now controls Sambisa desert (that one no be forest), where then are the remaining Chibok girls?

If the kidnap is true, those girls are no longer there. The aim of this invite is to show the BBOG that the girls aren't in Sambisa

Since the day I saw this woman on red Beret; I know her reasoning won't henceforth be different from Dalung's....