As several concerned Nigerians take to the street to remember the over 200 female students that were abducted a year ago by the extremist Boko Haram terrorist group, President Goodluck Jonathan has defended his administration’s actions so far on the issue.
Speaking on Tuesday with a BBC correspondent, the outgoing President Jonathan, said he suspected the girls were still alive, and are being held in a distant forest.
Although there have been reports from some escapees that the girls were seen in the forest, their whereabouts remains unclear till date.
The abduction of the over 200 school girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014, sparked a reaction that attracted international communities.
The Nigerian government had initially played politics with abduction and swept it under the carpet, with some government officials and sympathizers saying “no girls were kidnapped.”
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people as well as displaced many since it began its onslaught in 2009. Boko Haram in Hausa means- “Western education is a sin,” but the sect is known as Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad.
