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The federal government has accused non-government organisations of using the Chibok girls who escaped from their Boko Haram abductors to obtain money in the United States in continuation of accusations and counter-accusations over the missing girls.
Premium Times reports that the ministry of women affairs and parents of the girls who escaped Islamist insurgents complained on Thursday, September 8 that the girls were being used by NGOs for their own interests.
Minister of women affairs, Aisha Alhassan says chibok girls are being used for personal gains by NGOs.
Minister of women affairs, Aishatu Alhassan told the media after meeting with the parents in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital on Thursday that the girls who were taken by the US to continue their education by NGOs are being used to obtain money from donors.
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She said the government has now risen to correct the anomaly because of the 15 girls currently in the US, only five are in schools as promised.
She said: “We have heard reports that some of the Chibok schoolgirls that escaped abduction were taken to the U.S. by some persons under a private arrangement of which the government was not involved.
“We wanted to talk to the parents about these girls in the U.S. because every Nigerian is the business of the government. The welfare of every Nigerian is the responsibility of government whether in Nigeria or abroad.
“Therefore when we got the information that the girls were being used as tools for making money – not prostitution – but in the sense that they will be taken here and there where they go and relay their experiences during the insurgency, especially the invasion of Chibok town by Boko Haram and how they were abducted.
“After that, people used them to ask for donations; by so doing they make money out of it. So the girls became fed up; and started complaining that they were taken to U.S. on an arrangement that they were going to send them to school and that they were going to pay for their school. But unfortunately they said they were not allowed to remain in school.
The escaped Chibok girls in the US. Photo: Premium Times
“The Nigerian government of course has business in the welfare of every Nigerian at home or overseas; so officials now went in and did some investigation and found that the case was true. So through the ministry of foreign affairs, my ministry was contacted; and there was a meeting held with the parents who we invited to discuss the matter.
“Now we had gotten a letter from one of the people that took the girls now making some demands pertaining to the girls and that necessitated my coming to meet with the children’s parents so that we talk now that I am in Maiduguri. We have discussed and understood each other and charted the way forward. And I am going back to report to Mr. President who encouraged me to meet with the ministry of foreign affairs and the parents.
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“I have briefed them that the government is still doing its best to make sure that the ones in captivity are brought back home safe and sound. And they all appreciated our efforts and today they also dissociated themselves with any group including bring back our girls group that tries to use their name in order to insult the government or to undermine the authority of Mr. President.
“Most importantly, I conveyed Mr. President’s regards and how he feels for them as well as the concerns he has over the plight of their girls in captivity,” Mrs. Ahlhassan said.
Premium Times quoted one Yakubu Nkeki Maiva, who said he was chairman of the parents of abducted Chibok girls, as saying: “On the issue of our daughters that managed to escape from Boko Haram during the abduction who are now schooling in the US, we want the federal government to take over from those organizations and individuals, we want them to now study under the care of the federal government.
“When they were taken abroad we were told that they were going there to study and not going on tourism. We want them to return home with certificates and not tourists’ experiences. We want government to come in and take over their education there.”
While the Bring Back Our Girls group was not mentioned at all, the accusation will not go down well with so many human rights groups working on Chibok girls matter.
Apart from the Chibok girls, thousands of other women and girls were also abducted. You can read about them Shocking revelation: 3,000 women, girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
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