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.
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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