President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the former administration’s handling of the abduction of Chibok girls was shoddy.
The President said the government’s response to the incident was unimpressive and unfortunate.
Buhari said this on Wednesday, July 8, while granting audience to members of the BringBackOurGirls group.
He said: “We cannot rationalise the government’s incompetence in handling this issue.”
“This is because the law enforcement agencies and the government were conflicting each other sometimes within hours or within weeks, that is not very impressive. The delayed and late reaction by the former government and its agencies was very unfortunate as I said.”
“I think you will agree with me that the present government takes the issue very seriously. Within a week of being sworn in, I visited Niger, Chad and would have visited Cameroon but for the invitation of the G-7 to go to Germany.”
“I am very impressed with the fact that the leadership of this important group and the United Nations itself, are very concerned about the security in Nigeria which led to the abduction of the Chibok girls by the terrorists.”
“When the terrorists announced their loyalty to ISIS, the whole attention again was brought squarely to Nigeria. And now we are rated with Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. This is very unfortunate.”
