Jonathan Meets With Parents Of Abducted Chibok Girls Amidst Tight Security

Author:: channelsweb
Publisher:: Channels Television
Publication Date:: 22 July 2014
Tags:: Nigeria, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Conflict, Peace and Security, Children and Youth

A meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and parents of the over 200 girls abducted from their school's dormitory in Chibok, Borno State, is ongoing in the Presidential Villa under very strict security. Fifty-one of the girls who escaped from their abductors, a terrorist group, Boko Haram, were on Tuesday morning brought to the presidential villa alongside the parents of those still in the camp of the Boko Haram. Channels Television's correspondent, Chukwuma Onuekwusi, says security is tight at the venue of the meeting and that not even the State House correspondents were allowed to cover the closed-door meeting. Four of the brand new buses for the Abuja Urban Mass Transit were used to convey the girls and their parents from their hotel to the venue of the long expected meeting. Journalists and security personnel watched as the girls and their parents, one after the other, beginning with the school principal, alighted from the buses.