Boko Haram: Group Links Northern Elders With Schoolgirls’ Kidnap

A group called the United Alliance has accused the Northerns elders as being responsible for the abduction of over 200 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.

The group made this allegations in a statement by its northern co-ordinator, Bashir Ado, which is coming over two weeks after the students were kidnapped by suspected boko Harram terrorists on April 14, 2014, Monday.

The group accused the northern elders of the girls abduction as a way of the  frustrating and also embarrassing President Goodluck Jonathan. 

The spokesperson for the group, Bashir Ado, however, urged protesters in the Federal Capital Territory of their plans on Wednesday to demand for the release of the kidnapped girls not to take out their anger on the President, saying he has nothing to do with it.

He said: “The disappearance of the girls is part of the Northern elders agenda to embarrass and distract the Goodluck Jonathan government.

“They deliberately took the girls away to create an impression of insecurity and paint the picture that nobody is safe in the country, whereas they are the architect of these self- inflicting wounds aimed at distracting the government”

The group also blamed the school authorities who “deliberately ignored the government’s directive” that schools in the area should closed and demanded they should be questioned.

He further said: “It is high time our leaders in the North come to terms with the reality that this self inflicting havoc will continue to deplete the value of Northerners and eventually rub us of our place in the Nigerian nation.”

Source: Legit.ng