I no longer sleep with my two eyes closed -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday admitted that he
no longer sleep with his two eyes closed since the April
14 abduction of schoolgirls from Government Girls
Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, adding that the
situation will remain so until the girls regain their
freedom.
The President also ruled out the possibility that the girls
could have been moved out of the country by their
abductor, saying they may still be holed up inside
Sambisa Forest.
Jonathan spoke while addressing a world press
conference at the end of the three-day World Economic
Forum for Africa held in Abuja.
He also denied media reports that the nation’s security
agencies were slow in responding to the abduction.
The President also told the world that most of those who
were responsible for the recent bomb explosion in
Nyanya, a satellite town of Abuja, have been arrested.
He again lauded the organisers of the event for holding it
in Nigeria despite the terror attacks being recorded in
parts of the country.
He said the visitors would have seen for themselves that
although the country was facing challenges, Nigeria was
moving on.
He said with the commitments and concerns raised by
the international community, the abductors of the girl had
no choice than to free them because they no longer have
a hiding place.
He said, “Let me also use this unique opportunity to
thank all of you who have shown commitment and
concern those of you in Nigeria and those of you outside
this country to continue to press on that these terrorists
must bring back our girls.
“And they have no choice because I am quite pleased
that the whole world is signing the same message that
they must bring back our girls.
“And there is no where they will take this girls to, they
have no hiding place, we must work with the global
community that is quite keen to make sure that we bring
back this girls.
“We plead with the parents as a father and the President
of this country, I feel pained and I don’t sleep with my two
eyes closed and I will not sleep with my two eyes closed
until these girls are brought safely back to their parents.
“I thank you for all the concern, for all the sentiments,
communications you are putting across to the rest of the
world about what we are doing and of course where the
world wants to support us.”
He said, “The attackers are in a part of Borno State
described as Sambisa Forest. It is a forest area and we
are working with the experts that will use remote sensor
to see that wherever they are, we will see.
“So the best we can say is that they are within the
Sambisa Forest area. Of course, I agree that they are
stories that they have been moved outside the country,
but if they move that number of girls to Cameroon,
people will see. So I believe that they are still within
Nigeria.”
The President described the report that there was a slow
response on the part of security agencies and the
government to the abduction as a misconception.
He said, “There is no slow response at all, no no. It is a
misconception. The response is not slow. I have
explained this. Borno State can be described as the
headquarters of the terrorists, Boko Haram, they are
more in Borno State, then followed by Yobe and then
Adamawa.
“These are the three states we have declared state of
emergency already. So they have military personnel in
that state.
“Immediately this happened, they have been following it-
both the Army and the Air Force, they have been
combing. The only thing we did not do because we felt it
was not necessary then was to video the aircraft moving,
the military people moving and the fighter helicopters.
“We did not do the video to show because the people
were on ground because of the state of emergency
because of these terrorists. That is why people thought it
was slow, no it was not.
“We started work immediately. It was not slow the
Nigerian government responded immediately. If
somebody gives you the impression that government is
slow, that is not correct.”
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