Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
has made it known today that efforts of the Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration to rescue the Chibok girls are justified.
The former military president made it known in an interview with
Sun Newspaper, today, talking and shedding more lights on his views
about the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram amongst other happenings
in the country.
He granted the interview as one of the ways in celebrating his 73rd birthday today.
Read the excerpt below:
It has been over 100 days since the kidnapping of the Chibok
school girls. Despite the assurances by the international community,
the girls have not been found. What is the way forward? When do you
think we can get these girls back home to their parents?
”Perhaps the way forward is what government is doing now. I know
there are complications. It is no longer an issue that you could ask the
military to move into Sambisa forest and rescue the girls. I think
Nigerians want the girls rescued and brought back home alive not dead;
that is a very daring thing to do. From my experience as a professional
soldier, a lot of planning, a lot of cooperation, a lot of study has
to be done to achieve this objective. 217 or whatever the number is, is a
lot of population to lose just like that. So I think government is
trying from what we got during our last briefing; I am quite satisfied
that efforts are really being made to get the girls out. You see, the
objective is to get them out of that place alive, the operative word is
alive, you can order a full scale military operation and you could get
them all killed which would defeat the objective.”
It would be recalled that just recently, Following
incessant attacks by Boko Haram in Borno state, the governor of the
state, Kassim Shettima, held a closed-door meeting with Gen. Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida.
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