The Northern Nigeria Chapter of the Christian Association
of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday released a statement
expressing reservations and alleging conspiracy in the
Chibok schoolgirls abduction.
The chapter said they believe the kidnapping is a
conspiracy involving the governor of the state, Kashim
Shettima, the principal of the school, the chief security
officer of Borno & the commissioner for Education. In the
statement, they asked how 300+ girls can disappear into
air without any trace and where the daughters of the
principal, vice principal & CSO of the state were when the
kidnapping took place, and why no single photograph of
the Chibok girls has been made public by school
authorities. Find their press statement after the cut...
CHIBOK: PRESS STATEMENT BY NORTHERN CAN
Abducted female students of Chibok: CAN gives 6 posers to
Borno Governor
...says there's conspiracy between Shettima, school
authorities
The position of Northern CAN on the abduction of female
students in Chibok
Since the abduction of some female students in Chibok
Local Government Area of Borno State, Northern CAN has
decided to be silent for some reasons. We have decided
that we will make statements when we have all the facts of
the matter. It may interest Nigerians to know that we have
fundamental questions which demand one million answers:
1. Since the abduction of these girls over two weeks ago,
has Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima,
constituted any panel of investigation with a view to
making its report public?
2. How did the 353 female students disappear from the
school into the thin air?
3. Why did the Borno State Commissioner for Education,
Principal, Vice Principal and Chief Security Officer, all
Muslims, ignore the valid advice of WAEC on the security
implication of writing exams in the school and the need to
have a centre where the children’s life will be secured?
4. How did Boko Haram carry over 200 students and their
food stolen by these criminals from the school? Was it
carried with trailer?
5. Why is it that since this issue came up, no single
photograph of the abducted children was made public by
the school authorities? After all, they were preparing for
exams and may have submitted their photographs.
6. Where were the daughters of the Principal, Vice
Principal and Chief Security Officer when the abduction
took place?
We hope that this is not a political gimmick to carry out a
political conspiracy against these daughters of Nigerians,
future mothers of Nigeria and citizens who are wants to be
leaders of tomorrow.
So these are the questions; we have done our
investigations, we are begging the international
community, we are begging the Federal Government of
Nigeria and the press to ask these legitimate questions
from the Governor, Commissioner for Education, Principal
and CSO of the school because Chibok is a predominantly
Christian area. What we are after is the safety and future of
these children, whether they are Christians or Muslims or
our enemies doesn't matter. They are Nigerians, first and
foremost.
Our positions are as follows:
1. The Governor and government of Borno State should and
must as a matter of urgency stop playing politics with the
lives of the children of other people. They should produce
those children without delay because they know their
whereabouts.
2. We demand an explanation from the Governor,
Commissioner for Education, Principal and CSO of the
school on what they did and what they did not do that led
to the ferrying away of these innocent children who went to
sit for an examination for the betterment of their tomorrow.
3. How come that the parents of these children have not
been able to come out and say anything? Are they saying
that these children are orphans and do not have parents?
We demand an explanation because from our investigation,
parents of these children are facing intimidation and
threats from the government of Borno State. That is why
they could not come out to speak; but they are nursing
their pains in silence.
4. We also demand that the Federal Government and the
international community should help us beg the Governor
of Borno State to do everything within his powers to
produce these children.
5. We also reject a situation where they will turn our
daughters to be sex slaves of these criminals called Boko
Haram members. We have it on good authority that some
of these children are being raped 15 times a day. Some of
these children are being compelled to be wives of these
criminals. If you want to marry somebody's daughter, you
must seek the consent of her parents and not to ferry
under-aged children and perpetrate a lot of havoc on them.
The abduction of these girls seems a resurrection of what
the Christian communities in Northern Nigeria have been
suffering for centuries in the hands of the Emirs and Imams
regarding forceful conversion and abduction of Christian
girls. Borno State government should be reminded that the
fundamental human rights of these people should be
respected and protected.
The Governor should provide immediate explanation
because we know that some people want to sacrifice these
children on the altar of politics. There is a limit to which
Christians would tolerate all these abnormalities. We
suspect a conspiracy among all of these characters
including the Governor, Commissioner for Education,
Principal and CSO since non of the daughters of the
teachers and Principal were abducted; there is more to it
and this is the position of Northern CAN.
SIGN:
Wednesday May 7 2014
Prof. Daniel Babayi
Secretary-General
Sunday Oibe
Public Relations Officer
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