SCAN-VIEW Governor Shettima must be held accountable for deliberately putting the lives of our girls in mortal danger Recent unfolding facts clearly spell out why the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has played the Ostrich on this mass abduction. • Governor Shettima is completely responsible for this unfortunate development, having deliberately refused to heed the advice of the Federal Ministry of Education and WAEC on the relocation of students to Maiduguri and other safer towns. The Federal Ministry of Education did same after the Buni Yadi massacre. • Shettima has all along deliberately hidden the names of the abducted girls and played untenable politics for reasons best known to him. He relies on the unfortunate fact that Nigerians only blame the President, even when the culprit is known. • Why did Shettima organise the relocation of the remaining 180 student, after creating room for the abduction of the girls by failing to organise security as he pledged in his letter to WAEC? • Shettima’s shallow excuse that he could not act because the state is under Emergency Rule is untenable. What is obtainable in Borno State is a partial Emergency Rule where all political structures are in place. He controls the schools and determines when and where they operate. It was on this premise that he rejected expert advice from the Federal Ministry of Education and WAEC. • Nigerians must be bold in this circumstance to call a spade a spade. Governor Kashim Shettima deliberately exposed these girls to avoidable danger and this point must be made in clear terms. The Governor should be compelled to publicly explain why he took this very unfortunate decision to disregard valuable instruction. • As unfortunate as this situation is, it has thrown up the fact that the emergency rule has largely failed because of political structures in the three states. They take deliberate measures to frustrate genuine efforts at securing Nigerian citizens in their states.
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 16:40:56 +0000
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