United Nations General Assembly that it
had been "over three months" since the
Chibok girls were abducted when they were
in fact abducted over five months ago.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday,
September 24, 2014 presented Nigeria's annual
statement to the United Nations General
Assembly in New York.
The president addressed pertinent issues such as
the insecurity in the country, the missing Chibok
girls and the Ebola outbreak.
However, Jonathan said that the girls were
kidnapped "over three months ago" when they
were in fact abducted on April 14, 2014, more
than five months ago.
According to Reuben Abati, the president's
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,
Jonathan said » :
"Today's terrorism is vicious and aimless. Its
consequences are extremely agonizing, marked
by a tendency to annihilate victims, and
completely destroy infrastructure and
properties.
The involvement of foreign fighters has
remained a common feature of terrorist groups -
whether Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Al Shaabab in
Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria, or the newly
emerging Islamic State (I.S).
This refocuses attention on the need to review
present tools for United Nations peacekeeping
operations,"
The president also told the assembly that the
federal government would do everything possible
to ensure that the Chibok girls are rescued and
Boko Haram is stopped.
He continued:
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all
the countries and organizations that expressed
solidarity with us, and have continued to support
our determined efforts to free our daughters.
"Although it has been over three months since
they were abducted, we have never relented in
our efforts to set them safely free. Together with
our partners, we are working assiduously to free
our daughters and reunite them with their
families.
"Let me underline today, that we shall not waiver
until we end this mindless war on the innocent,
and bring all the perpetrators to justice. We will
triumph over terrorism,"
On Ebola, he said:
"While Nigeria was able to respond effectively to
control the spread of the disease, the situation in
Liberia and Sierra Leone requires sustainable,
collective global action to contain."
"Through the concerted efforts of our health
care professionals, the World Health
Organisation and our international partners, we
have been able to contain the EVD and we can
confidently say that Nigeria is today, Ebola-
free."
The Chibok girls were said to have been
rescued on Tuesday, September 23 but the
reports were denied by the Nigerian
Defence headquarters after an earlier
alleged confirmation. »
The 2014 UN General Assembly convened on
September 16 and is expected to run till October 1
2014. President Jonathan is however
expected back in Nigeria today, September
25. »
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