Chibok girls and Unanswered questions (Part 1)



Chibok village



The Chibok village, located about 60 kilometers away from
the Sambisa Forest, is the headquarters of the Chibok local
government area in Borno state. It is amongst the most
deprived LGAs in the state. The best roads there are glorified
footpaths. Those that lead to the village are forested on both
sides, which provides cover for the Boko Haram Islamic
jihadists (BHIJ) to spring ambushes on motorists. Though
Christians constitute over 80% of the local population, only
Muslims are appointed “Mai” (village and district heads) and
“Maina” (prince) by the Shehu of Borno. Salaries here are
lower than those of civil servants in northern
parts dominated by Muslims.


Government girls’ secondary school in Chibok


In mid 1970s, a Women teachers’ college was established in
Chibok village, but was later converted to the Government
girls’ secondary school (GGSS) in 1988. The GGSS was
upgraded to a mixed school in 2011, and it is the only
secondary school in the Chibok LGA. Out of 530 students
who allegedly registered for the Senior Secondary School
Examination (SSSE) in the school, 129 were from the Chibok
village while the rest were from Warabe, Izge, Warabe, Lassa
and Ashigshiya communities.
Due to deteriorating security situation, the school was closed
for four weeks before it was hurriedly reopened for the 2014
SSSE.


Transformation of BHIJ



In the heat of bloody campaigns by BHIJ to make Nigeria
ungovernable, as promised by Hausa-Fulani politicians, a
bizarre drama was staged at Chibok village. In October 2010,
Alhaji Lawal Kaita said: “We will make Nigeria ungovernable
for Jonathan. Anything short of a Northern president is
tantamount to stealing our presidency. Jonathan has to go,
and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency powers to get
his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he will be
frustrated out of office”. In furtherance of the Kaitas’ resolve
to frustrate President Jonathan out of office, the BHIJ was
transformed from a horde of misguided “born throways” to
a well-funded, bloodthirsty gang of murderers. The alleged
abduction, and failure of Jonathan’s administration to
rescue the girls has become a sore thumb in our national
life, hence, the need to revisit it with a view to asking some
pertinent questions.


Conflicting figures

On 17 April 2014, the principal of the school, Hajiya Asabe
Kwambura told the Associated Press that 115 girls were
abducted by BHIJ out of 129 who slept in the school that
night. Then, on 27 April, 2014, the same principal told The
Punch that over 200 girls were abducted by BHIJ, while only
43 escaped.
Following Governor Shettima’s pledge to pay compensations
to parents and guardians of the girls, the villagers presented
a list of 234 girls who they claimed were abducted by BHIJ to
the governor when he visited Chibok in April 2014. They
added that only 39 girls had so far escaped from BHIJ
captivity.
In Maiduguri in May 2014, Borno state commissioner for
education, Alhaji Inuwa Kubo informed the presidential fact-
finding committee on Chibok abduction that 276 girls were
abducted and that 57 of them later escaped, thereby leaving
219 still missing. In May 2014, Northern states’ Christians
and Elders Forum released names and photographs of 178
“abducted” girls. According to Charles Eguridu, Head of the
Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations
Council (WAEC), 395 girls registered for the SSSE in the
school. He added that after the alleged abduction, 189 out of
the 395 girls were moved to Uba examination center to
complete the SSSE.
In view of the above-given conflicting figures, how many girls
were actually abducted from the GGSS, Chibok that night?


Complicity of school authority

Some days prior to the alleged abduction, the principal and
vice principal, both Christians, were replaced with their
Muslim conterparts, Hajiya Asabe Kwambura and Mallam
Yerima Banjiri, by the Borno State Ministry of Education.
On 17 April 2015, Kwambura told the AP that she was
present when BHIJ came to evacuate the girls and that she
even encouraged the girls to board the trucks because she
thought BHIJ were Nigerian soldiers. She claimed that it was
when BHIJ started looting and destroying things in the
school that she knew they were BHIJ. She added that one
soldier and a policeman who were deployed at the school
were killed, and that her granddaughter was also abducted.
But on 27 April 2014, she told the PN that she was in
Maiduguri for medical checkup when the abduction took
place, and that no security personnel was deployed in the
school. She added that her granddaughter was not
abducted.
Which of the two versions is the truth? Why did the
education ministry replace Christians with Muslims,
considering the fact that over 80% of the students were
Christians?
The Muslim vice principal threatened to expel any student
who did not sleep in the school throughout the examination
period. However, after the alleged abduction, he has not
been seen or heard of. None of the daughters or wives of
the teachers and management staff was abducted by BHIJ.


Governor Kashim Shettima

Charles Eguridu said that WAEC prevailed on Dr Nyesom
Wike, former minister for education, to write a letter to
Governor Shettima, requesting him to move all students to
Maiduguri, where adequate security could be provided for
them during SSSE. Shettima refused to relocate students of
GGSS, Chibok, to Maiduguri as suggested; rather, he replied
in writing that his government would provide adequate
security in the school throughout the period of the
examination.
But when the alleged abduction took place, there was no
security personnel deployed anywhere in the school as he
promised. Shettima has two daughters. Would he have
refused to either relocate the students to Maiduguri or
provide adequate security in the school as he promised if
his daughters were amongst the girls?
Governor Shettima said that the military failed to protect the
girls, adding that prominent indigenes of the Chibok LGA
prevailed on him to allow the students to take the SSSE in
the GGSS.
But Hosea Tsambido, chairman of Kibaku Area Development
Union, an umbrella union for Chibok people, said that
Shettima was economical with the truth because no indigene
of Chibok had insisted on conducting the exam at the
schoool in question.
If the military refused to confront BHIJ, as inferred by
Shettima, what instruction did he give to the security forces
he promised to deploy in the school? What instruction did
he give to the school authority that night in order to save the
girls?
The mastermind of the bomb blast at the Suleija church,
Kabiru Sokoto, was apprehended in Governor Shettima’s
lodge in Abuja. This was after his escape from a police
custody, where he was detained. Why did Sokoto, an
indigene of Sokoto state, declared wanted by the police, find
it convenient to take refuge in Shettima’s lodge?
The alleged abduction took place a few hours after the bomb
blast at Nyanya on 14 April 2014. While BHIJ claimed
responsibility for this at once, it took the jihadists over two
weeks to claim responsibility for the alleged abduction. If
the alleged abduction was carried out by BHIJ, why did it
take them so long?
In May 2014, Shettima told the BBC that he knew a lot about
the alleged abduction and that he was under pressure not to
say all he knew about it because many heads would roll if he
did. He added that the prevailing wanton destruction of lives
and properties in North-East by BHIJ were the handiwork of
some powerful Nigerians who were bent on making life
miserable for him at all cost. Whose heads Shettima is
protecting? Why has no person or institution made any
effort to cause Shettima to tell the truth?



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The fact that there has never been an upright truth about the ACCURATE NUMBER of the missing girls has proven that kidnap of these girls was not masterminded by the BH alone.
It is well with Nigeria.

Chibok Girls and Unanswered Questions(Part 2)


Female students of GGSS, Chibok

Some of the girls who allegedly escaped from BHIJ captivity
were interviewed by Al Jazeera and CNN correspondents at
various times, but none of them could speak the English
language. One of the girls claimed that BHIJ used only two
trucks to convey them that night.
If these girls are the real students in question, were they
going to write SSSE in the Hausa language? Is it possible to
use only two trucks to successfully transport 234 girls and
food stuff to Sambisa Forest that night?


The Ezekwesilis

On 11 September 2001, the Twin Towers in the USA were
brought down by Islamist jihadists. Almost 3,000 people
were killed, along with the 19 terrorists. On 7 July 2005,
they bombed underground trains and a bus in Central
London, killing 56. It took the USA, the most powerful nation
in the world, years to eliminate Osama bin Laden, the
alleged mastermind of 9/11. During those years, no
opposition political party, social commentator or non-
governmental organization aligned with the Islamic jihadists
to malign the US government and the armed forces.
Does it mean that, by rallying round their governments and
the armed forces to confront the Islamic jihadists,
opposition political parties, social critics and non-
governmental organizations in the UK and USA are not as
patriotic as the Ezekwesilis?
Led by supposedly educated Nigerians, such as Obi
Ezekwesili, the Bring Back Our Girls campaign embarked on
daily condemnation of the Jonathan’s administration and
the military for failing to rescue the girls.
As far as the Ezekwesilis were concerned, Governor Shettima
has no case to answer, hence they never made any attempt
to question the circumstances surrounding the alleged
abduction. Their primary objective was to use the alleged
abduction to comprehensively denigrate Jonathan’s
administration and promote Buhari’s candidacy.
Like Daniel Kanu and Authur Nzeribe, who used Youth
Earnestly Yearn for Abacha, and Association for a Better
Nigeria respectively to sheepishly campaign for HF
hegemonic agenda, Madam Obi Ezekwesili followed the
inglorious footsteps of her kinsmen to use the BBOG
platform to campaign for the same purpose.
The Ezekwesilis’ campaign of calumny against GEJ was so
helpful that Chief Audu Ogbe publicly acknowledged BBOG’s
contributions at Eagles Square, Abuja, in October 2014,
during Buhari’s declaration to re-contest.
As expected, Ezekwesili and her cohort have run out of
steam since the swearing-in of Buhari on 29 May 2015. Now
that the BBOG is a shadow of itself, has Buhari rescued the
Chibok girls, or was it a HF campaign outfit as acknowledged
by Chief Audu Ogbe? In appreciation for BBOG’s support, a
co-founder of BBOG, Hadiza Bala-Usman had since been
appointed chief of staff and member of Buhari’s Anti-
Corruption Advisory Committee by Mallam El-Rufai and
Buhari respectively. Though Buhari seems to detest the
Igbos with a passion, it is hoped that Ezekwesili’s loyalty to
HF hegemonic agenda will convince him to find
something for her, however small.


The January 16th bravado

After the APC presidential campaign rally in Maiduguri on 16
January 2015, Buhari insisted on visiting the Chibok village.
He reluctantly aborted the journey when he realized that the
military were not prepared to provide adequate security.
If Buhari’s desire was not a political grandstanding, why has
he not visited thevillage or anywhere in the North-East, in
spite of the fact that BHIJ have killed thousands since 29 May
2015? Why has he not abandoned the comfort of Aso Rock
Villa and relocated to the North-East to lead the battle
against BHIJ from the front, as he promised during the
campaign?
May God grant us the Grace to see with our eyes, but not
with our minds.
In April 2014, hundreds of young schoolgirls have been
abducted by Boko Haram from the Government girls’
secondary school in Chibok. The shocking news, and
subsequent “ proof videos” released by Boko Haram, drew
global attention, with many foreign governments offering
their help in order to facilitate the release of the girls.
With the clock ticking, theories and strategies were
forged both by officials and ordinary Nigerians concerning
the girls’ whereabouts, possible fates. Some of the girls
managed to escape their captors and have granted
interviews to international news outlets.
To this day, skeptics find new “evidence” to substantiate the
fact that no abduction took place in the dormitories of the
Chibok girls’ school. Their opponents, most notably, the
#BringBackOurGirls initiative, are unrelenting in reminding
the world of the issue. A year and a half later, the interest
for the global Chibok girls-oriented campaign has subsided,
but the movement still exists, and the new Nigerian
government, and army do have the girls on their mind.

This write up make sense die.

Quite expository!