President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice-president today met with members of the BringBackOurGirls campaign group inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Security Chiefs and other top government officials were also at the meeting.
Speaking at the meeting with the advocacy group, #Bringbackourgirls at the presidential villa, President Buhari lamented the state of the nation’s security but promised that his government will do all it can to free them.
Buhari said: “It is ironic how Nigeria, which helped Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Sudan, is now asking for help from Niger and Chad. How have the mighty fallen!” the president said. “I don’t think we can rationalise the [past] government’s incompetence in dealing with this issue. We only ask for your patience.”
Naijalog recalls that 219 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, Borno state in April 2014.