GEJ Called Me 19 Days After Chibok Girls Abduction – Shettima

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has said that former president, Goodluck Jonathan did not call him to discuss the 2014 Chibok abduction until 19 days after the girls had been taken.

Shettima made the revelation on Monday, March 28, 2016, while receiving former president, Olusegun Obasanjo at the Government House in Maiduguri.

“In our own case, Your Excellency, after the Chibok abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in April, 2014, it took 19 days for me to receive a call from the Presidency,” Shettima said according to Punch.

“I brought this mainly to show the difference, because we will only appreciate scenarios when we make comparisons,” he added.

Obasanjo had earlier criticized Jonathan for failing to act immediately the girls were kidnapped.

“It is unfortunate. What I have said to Jonathan before and what I have said also in my letter – and I have said it several times – is that, once active and concrete action was not taken within 48 hours, a period of 72 hours was already too late,” he said during an interview with Rosie Collyer of Radio France Internationale (RFI) in 2014.

“We will never be able to get those girls again. And the story of those girls will go on for the next 30 years. Some of them will come out when they are adults or they will be sent back when they are pregnant by those who have captured them. If anyone is thinking of being able to get those girls released intact, he must be day dreaming,” he added.

Obasanjo also made a similar comment on Friday, February 5, 2016, saying that anyone promising to rescue the Chibok girls is telling lies.

The over 200 girls were abducted on April 14, 2014, and most of them remain in captivity.