President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, Jan. 14, reportedly stormed out of the meeting with parents of the missing Chibok girls at the Aso Villa.
The Bring Back Our Girls group (BBOG) had marched to the Villa today as part of efforts to pressure the government on the search for their children.
According to multiple tweets by 'Enough is Enough' @EiENigeria, the President was cold to the parents, not expressing empathy.
It was gathered that the National Security Adviser (NSA), Retired Major-General Babagana Monguno, later took up the responsibility to communicate with the protesters, charging them to be hopeful.
Initially, report said the BBOG group led by former Oby Ezekwesili had been told by the Women Affairs minister, Aisha Alhassan, that they would not be able to see the President because he was in a meeting with delegates from Benin Republic.
In response to that, Ezekwesili said: “You have been very unfair to us,”she said. “I don’t understand why you can be chiding the parents and the movement. These parents were triggered by the words of the president who promised to rescue their daughters”.
Premium Times reports that members of the Bring Back Our Girls group, alongside some parents of the missing school girls from Chibok, Borno state, thronged the entrance to the villa early Thursday, January 14.