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Buhari To Remaining Chibok Girls’ Parents: Expect Good News In Due Course

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the parents of the school girls that were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, to expect good news about the safe release of the girls in due course.

He said that four long years since they were taken away by terrorists, his government is at the verge of securing their release and safe return to the parents.

President Buhari, in a statement by his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the sad incident, prayed that the event at the daughters’ school today will go well.

He asked the parents to keep their hopes alive on the return of their daughters, saying that the recovery  of more than a 100 of the girls that were kidnapped through the Federal Government’s determined effort should give confidence that all “hope is not lost”.

President Buhari stressed that the government is focused and determined to see the girls return to their homes, even as he called on the parents to be expectant of more good news in due course.

“We are concerned and aware that it is taking long to bring the rest of our daughters back home, but be assured that this administration is doing its very best to free the girls from their captors.

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“Unfortunately, the negotiations between the government and Boko Haram suffered some unexpected setbacks, owing mainly to a lack of agreement among their abductors, whose internal differences have led to a divergence of voices regarding the outcome of the talks. We know that this is not the news parents want to hear after four whole years of waiting, but we want to be as honest as possible with you.

“However, this government is not relenting. We will continue to persist, and the parents should please not give up. Don’t give up hope of seeing our daughters back home again. Don’t lose faith in this government’s ability to fulfill our promise of reuniting you with our daughters.

“Don’t imagine for a moment that we have forgotten about our daughters or that we consider their freedom a lost course.”

President Buhari made it clear that as long as he remains the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Chibok girls will never be forgotten and all will be done to have them reunited with their families. [myad]