Chibok girls are alive – Jonathan

I hope this is true.....Mr president said the Chibok girls are still very much alive. read full text below.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has assured the parents of the Abducted Chibok girls and all Nigerians that the girls are still alive and his government was doing everything possible to rescue them.

The president who spoke when he appeared on a Live Discussion programme on an African Independent Television (AIT), Kaakaki monitored in Abuja hinged his optimism on the assumption that had the girls been killed, the terrorists would have publicly displayed their corpses in order to induce fear.


President Jonathan


In the over one hour programme, President Jonathan who was appearing on a Nigerian Television station for the first time apart from the government owned Nigerian Television Authority spoke on a wide range of issues including his chances of being re-elected in the forth coming election.

President Jonathan admitted during the programme that government under rated the capacity of the Boko Haram sect and this explains why they are so entrenched.

According to the President, with the increased capacity of the military which has taken possession of more than 65 percent of the platform needed to prosecute the war, the remaining territories still under the control of the terrorists would soon be recaptured.

Speaking on why the girls have not been recovered despite the gains recorded by the military, the president said its is because “reasonable territories are still in the hands of Boko Haram.

“We promised that we must get the girls. The good story is that they have not killed them because the terrorists, when they kill, they display. They use it to intimidate the whole society. They girls are alive. We will get the girls. Luckily, we are narrowing down the area of their control. So, we will get them” he said.

President Jonathan said “at the beginning, probably we did not really (correctly) estimate the capacity of Boko Haram. It is obvious. Boko Haram started as a non-violent group led by Yusuf, limited to around Maiduguri area, Yobe. They did not even get to Adamawa.

“Just like every group of youths or young people is inclined to criminality, over the period, they expanded their network and linked up with other terrorist organizations like in the North Africa like Al-Qaeda and other similar brands in the world.

“So, they continued to build their capacity and it got to point to know that for you to tackle them in the kind of environment they operate, you need some specialized equipment to use and we don’t manufacture these equipment now. That is why the movement has changed. So, it is not deliberate,” he said.