In an new interview with Bloomberg TV aired on Saturday,Former president
Olusegun Obasanjo said President Jonathan didn't believe girls were
really
kidnapped..
“On the kidnapping or abduction, the President did not believe that
those girls were abducted for almost 18 days. If the President got the
information within 12 hours of the act and he reacted immediately, I believe those girls would have been
rescued within 24 hours, maximum, 48 hours.Don’t forget, they are
almost 300 girls. The logistics of moving them is something (delay the
sect would have encountered).
Unfortunately, the President had doubts; ‘Is this true? Is this a ploy
by some people who don’t want me to be President again, who is doing
this?’I think that was unfortunate aspect of the whole exercise or
situation.”
On his alleged recent meeting with Boko Haram,he said.,..
People have forgotten that three
years ago, I went to Maiduguri. That was when Boko Haram attacked the
United Nations building in Abuja and they accepted responsibility.Then, I
went to Abuja to meet security leaders, the Inspector-General of Police
and the National Security Adviser to know what is their (Boko Haram’s)
objectives. Do they have grievances? Can we reach out to them? The
feeling I got was that ‘they are a bunch of riff-raff; just forget about
them.I then went to the President and asked if I could take it upon
myself for a fact-finding visit. I want to find out things. The
President was gracious and said ‘I trust your judgment. You can do thatI
could not do that without people leading me. There was a lawyer who
knew most of them (insurgents) and their leaders. He acted as proxy to
talk to them and talk to me. He communicated my arguments,
my ideas and my questions to them.I reported to the two most important
principals – the state governor and President at that time. I believe
that if action had been taken at that time, as recommended, maybe we would have gotten to this stage.”
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