Parents to identify Chibok girls with pictures

May 8, 2017 Leon Usigbe - Abuja

THE photographs of newly freed 82 Chibok schoolgirls have been snapped and given to their community leaders to pass on to parents for the purpose of identifying their children, the Tribune Online has learnt.

It was gathered that Presidency took the decision to adopt this option of photographing them in order to avoid the chaotic experience that followed the release of 21 of the school girls in October last year where several parents claimed individual girls as their own because of
similarity in their names.

The Tribune Online learnt that photographers were brought into where the girls were being quartered to have their pictures taken which are now being distributed to Chibok community leaders who have started coming to see them in Abuja from Sunday. The community leaders have been instructed to take the pictures back to Chibok and environs where they girls come from to enable their families and communities to
identify them before coming to Abuja to claim them.

The Presidency also believes that now that the names of the girls have been published, some parents may be able to provide incontrovertible evidence that they are related to some of them girls even before they receive their photographs.

Senior Special Assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this to the Tribune Online in Abuja on Monday, noting that most of the girls are not from Chibok town itself, but villages scattered around the area. He said the government is doing its best for the girls who he noted would be identified by their parents as they come to Abuja.

On the condition of the girls who were abducted from their school dormitory in April 2014, the presidential spokesman observed that they were brought in great shape with no visible sign of their abuse by the insurgents. He said their case is unlike the 21 Chibok girls freed last October who came in poor shape.

Garba said: “To be honest, without appearing to speak for Boko Haram, from the outlook of these girls, they appear better in terms of their physical outlook than the 21 we received before.
“Those 21, you know the way they came, they looked famished, underfed and undernourished.
“This is not to take away from the fact that these ones too have been traumatised. “However, was there abuse physically, sexual and all of
that? Only medical examination which is now on going, will reveal that.

“But on the face of it, they don’t seem to have…there is nothing so far on their faces to show that abuse if there was any. “But detailed examination psychologists, physiologist will examine them and then they will tell us far or how much of abuse has taken place.”

President Muhammadu Buhari received the girls on Sunday night, expressing delight over their release which he described as a pleasant second anniversary gift to the people of Nigeria.
Speaking while hosting them at his official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, he said: “I cannot express in a few words how happy I am to welcome our dear girls back to freedom. “On behalf of all Nigerians, I will like to share my joy with you, your parents, your relatives, friends and government of Borno State on regaining your freedom. “The Federal Government will like to commend the security agencies, the Red Cross, local authorities, local
and foreign NGOs and all those who contributed in one way or another to secure the release of our Chibok
Girls.”

BRIGHTRIVERS:
Go and never return

thunder74:
Is Shehu Sanni the Senator representing their community? How did he identify them, through twitter, Facebook or tru what? Make una kontinu....

The link attached is not correct.... This is fraudulent news to color the scam with some imaginary truth

LionDeLeo:
Where are those ipob bstards asking if the girls number up to 80?

The senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has identified 20 of the 82 Chibok girls recently released by Boko Haram in a Facebook post.

They are Kwata Simon, Grace Dauda, Jummai Dauda, Thabita Pogo, Yanke Shetima, Jummai Miutah, Juliana Yakubu, Mary Yakubu, Ruhl Kolo, Mairama Yahaya, Racheal Nkeke, Fibi Haruna, Asabe Manu and Ester Usman.

Others are Filo Dauda, Awa Ababa, Lydia Joshua, Naomi Bitrus, Martha James and Palmata Musa.


Read more at http://www.herald.ng/senator-shehu-sani-identifies-20-chibok-girls/#mFRZbXwm18AV3uOv.99

theft of petrol kept in his tank farm in Lagos by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The product was valued at over N11 billion.

PT: Your latest album, MMM, has a rather interesting title. What is the story behind it?

MC GALAXY: MMM simply stands for Money Making Machine. I am simply trying to pass a message that everyone has the potential to make money and become wealthy. Every individual is gifted and can make money from it. Money Making Machine is an afro-centric body of work with guest appearances including Swizz Beatz, Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, Congolese singer Neza and Serge Beynaud from Côte D’ivoire.

PT: Is it also connected to the fact that you lost N25 million to the MMM Ponzi scheme last year?

MC GALAXY: Not really. It was one of the reasons, but not the major reason. I can’t even remember it. That’s in the past. I have forgotten all about it. My manager convinced me to invest about N25 million in MMM but that is all in the past. True, I lost money to MMM, but it has taught me now that I am my own money making machine. A lot of people have learnt a lot of lessons from that experience.

maclatunji:


And then break it within 24 hours and be rearrested by the government at anytime it chooses.

alezzy13:
OP you just shot yourself in the foot.

IF really NO SERVING Igbo Senator can come to his aid and If really no Igbo billinaire can come to his his aid, then its a pretty damning indictment on the whole Biafra struggle. IT means all you have are poor jobless noisemakers.

At the other thread, someone asked why it had to be Fayose that came to hug him. The sheepish answers were that other Igbo govs were working "behind the scenes". I LAUGH IN GREEK.

Behind the scene ko, On top the scene ni

I repeat the statement I made at the other thread: if really the man is as popular as touted, then aside the Jewish leader thingy,meeting those conditions should be a piece of cake.

wordbank:
Buhari has turned Nigeria into a comedy club

Cjrane2:
BUHARI is an ignorant bigot. In the end, like all tyrants, he will lose.

otokx:
Who takes FFK seriously?