‘Don’t lose hope,’ Presidency tells Nigerians

The Presidency has urged Nigerians not to lose
hope on the fate of the abducted Chibok girls

The comment was made on Sunday, September
6, 2015, by the Senior Special Assistant to
President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and
Publicity, Garba Shehu during an interview with
Punch.

Shehu also said that Buhari never promised to
rescue the Chibok girls on the second day of his
administration.
The presidential aide said:
Shehu said this in an interview with our
correspondent in Abuja on Sunday.
“To be fair to President Buhari, did he ever say he
will bring back the girls on the second day of his
administration? What he has always said is that we
don’t even know where the girls are and that we
need to go in there and get the intelligence and
situation of things and then act.”
“Without meaning to endanger what is left of those
girls, you know that the Sambisa Forest is being
degraded right now.”
“In the last few days, you even saw the Chief of
Army Staff leading the troops and I am aware that
in the last few weeks, very interesting pictures
have been shown to the President on the basis of
which we will say to Nigerians, don’t lose hope on
the Chibok girls.”
“I am not saying they have been found or that they
have been seen. But it is not yet time for Nigerians
to say we have lost them.”
The Chibok girls were abducted on April 14,
2014, and most of them remain in captivity.