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Buhari Hosts US’ Secretary Of States, Tells Why Chibok/Dapchi Girls Are Yet To Be Rescued

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President Muhammadu Buhari, right, with the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson...in Abuja...
President Muhammadu Buhari, right, with the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson...in Abuja...

President Muhammadu Buhari has given reasons why his government have so far not been able to rescue abducted Chibok and Dapchi girls.

He explained that his administration prefers to have the girls back alive, hence the decision to opt for negotiation with their Boko Haram abductors, rather than military option.

Receiving the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, in audience at State House, Abuja, Monday, President Buhari added that Nigeria was working in concert with international organizations and negotiators, to ensure that the girls were released unharmed by their captors.

“We are trying to be careful. It is better to get our daughters back alive,” the President said.

He thanked America for assistance rendered in the fight against insurgency, noting that Nigerian forces are good, “but need assistance in the areas of training and equipment.”

President Buhari promised that his administration would continue to do its best to secure the country, adding that he would be in Yobe State, from where Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted, later this week “as part of my condolence and sympathy visits to areas where we have had unfortunate events.”

The President pledged free and fair polls in 2019, recalling that the then American Secretary of State, John Kerry, had visited before the 2015 polls, “and he told the party in government then, and those of us in opposition, to behave ourselves, and we did.”

The visiting Secretary of State commended President Buhari on his strides in the anti-corruption war, to which the Nigerian leader responded that moneys recovered are being invested on development of infrastructure.

Mr Tillerson said Nigeria was a very important country to the U.S, stressing: “You have our support in your challenges. We will also support opportunities to expand the economy, commercial investments, and peaceful polls in 2019.”

Packaged by Alice Egbedele

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