Buhari to Nigerians: better days are coming

If the president wants the captors of innocent Nigerian citizens and school girls to put them on the phone with their parents, he can have it done, except if he doesn’t want to.

It was in April 2014, however, that the global community began to take notice when 279 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok, a town in Boko Haram’s stronghold of north-eastern Nigeria. Other attempts under the previous administration failed because officials apparently were talking to the wrong people in the fragmented group.

“As it was in 1984 when an accused was presumed as guilty and must have to prove his innocence, Nigerians are now being told by Buhari, a democratically elected President that those he accused of corruption are already guilty and they do not have rights to enjoy bail granted them by the courts even after meeting all the bail conditions”.

Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), popularly called Boko Haram, didn’t fall from the sky; they are mostly Nigerians.

Buhari said this while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja during his maiden “Presidential Media Chat” broadcast on the national network of radio and television stations. “My thinking is that it means what they have been telling us is all lies, if they are saying they don’t have any clue on the whereabouts of the Chibok girls”.

Nigerian troops have clawed territory back from Boko Haram in recent months, and last week Buhari announced that the military had “technically won the war” against the armed group.

LAGOS – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he had no new intelligence on about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped nearly two years ago, and that his government would negotiate with any “credible” Boko Haram leadership for their release.

In an apparent response to the announcement of their defeat, suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the biggest city in the northeast, Maiduguri, with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombings that killed about 50 people on Sunday night and early Monday morning.

“The United States remains committed to helping Nigeria and its neighbours counter Boko Haram’s senseless acts of terror”.

He added that, ” This government will not consider the matter concluded until the terrorists have been completely routed and normalcy restored to all parts of the country that have been adversely affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.