Omeri Says Reports Of Jonathan’s Planned Trip To Chibok ‘Untrue’ The Coordinator of the Joint Security Information Centre and Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mr Mike Omeri, has criticised the news making the rounds that President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled a planned trip to Chibok in Borno State where over 200 girls were abducted by members of a terrorist group, Boko Haram. Addressing a news conference in Abuja, Nigerian’s capital on Friday, Mr Omeri said the report that the president planned to visit Chibok was not true. He described it as false, advising politicians not to politicise the campaign aimed at bringing back the abducted Chibok Girls. Mr Omeri called on them to lend their support towards bringing back the girls safe and alive instead of politicising the campaign. “It is to guard against this speculative kind of journalism that is coming from not credible source, not even any source, that the government decided to open this centre for the purpose of giving information to the press. “From our checks, that information did not emanate from any source known to the government or to this centre,” Mr Omeri said. In an earlier twitter message, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati, said that there was no plan by the President to visit Chibok on Friday. Abarti expressed worries over where the story emanated from, advising the media to always verify information before reporting them. There had been reports that President Jonathan had scheduled to visit Chibok on Friday the same day he is billed to attend a meeting in Paris aimed at rallying support from neighbouring African countries in the fight against insurgency in Nigeria’s north east. The visit to Chibok had been expected with high hopes, the first visit that would have occurred since the girls were abducted from their dormitory in the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok by members of the terrorist group on April 14. The terrorist group, which has carried out series of attacks on villages, schools and churches in the north east, released a video of over 100 girls on Monday demanding an exchange of the girls with some members held in detention across Nigeria. The leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau had, in a video released earlier, threatened to sell the girls in a market. Efforts by Nigeria military and other countries intelligence agents are still on to rescue the girls.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 05:27:59 +0000
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