I will lead protest march to find missing girls – Patience Jonathan
The First Lady said this yesterday while meeting with governors’ and ministers’ wives, female senators, commissioners and more than 200 women from various groups at the State House in Abuja.
The meeting was organised to ascertain the exact whereabouts of the missing schoolgirls who were taken away by men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect on April 14.
Initial reports say the girls were spotted at a Boko Haram camp near Nigeria’s border to Cameroon but subsequent reports indicate the girls have been moved to different locations making it difficult to find and bring them home.
According to Dame Patience, a committee will be inaugurated to include wives of all relevant stakeholders at
a meeting scheduled for May 4.
“I cannot perpetuate hearsay and rumour; I must have facts to tell the international community. We will set up a committee to seek the truth as women.
“If any of those we call refuse to come, we will take the protest to Chibok.
“I do not mind being shot as long as they return our girls to us safely, we are tired of the kidnapping,” she said.
Jonathan said that the first ladies of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and various other countries had called to ask questions and offer assistance on the matter.
“They intimated me of their readiness to help, they also asked me questions that I could not answer and as women we are the last hope of this nation. We cannot fail our fellow women and the nation.
“If need be, we will call on the northern elders to help us so that our children and husbands will not die,” Jonathan said.
Others who spoke at the meeting included Yemisi Suswam, Sen. Nenadi Usman and Prof. Sarah Jibril.
