Shettima, has promised to relocate the abducted
Chibok schoolgirls to other parts of the country
to complete their secondary school education
after their release. He said this when the
Chairman, Chibok Local Government, Mr. Baana
Lawan, led the parents of the abducted
schoolgirls to his office on Monday.
The governor said the state government would
sponsor all the girls to schools in Abuja, Kano,
Lagos, Kaduna or any other states of the country
to complete their secondary school education. It
will be recalled that the girls were sitting for their
final year examinations when they were
kidnapped in their hostel on April 14. Shettima
said, "It is mandatory for the state government
to ensure the speedy return or release of the girls
and it is the sole responsibility of government to
see that these our children are back home
without politicising the matter.
"This is not politics, there is no need to play
politics with the abduction of these children.
We have children and we know what it is for these
girls to be missing." Meanwhile, the Secretary to
the Borno State Government, Ambassador Baba
Jidda, who represented Shettima at a media
briefing in Lagos said that the state government
had spent N10bn on the Boko Haram war since
2011. He revealed this in a transcript of a
meeting held with some journalists in Lagos.
Shettima said the state was forced to disclose
the figures because of a growing campaign of
calumny against the state government. He
explained that it was sad that certain individuals
had taken it upon themselves to misinform the
public by accusing the state government of
doing nothing to assist the military in its
operations in the state.
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