Nigeria’s first female vice-chancellor, Professor Grace Alele-Williams, has knocked the Nigerian Army for being unserious in the search for the Chibok girls still in the captive of Boko Haram terrorists.
Speaking at the inaugural Chibok Girls Lecture held on Friday in Abuja, the 84-year-old academic urged the military to put more efforts and stop playing politics in the quest to free the remaining school girls.
Hear her: “The story of the Chibok girls nowadays is now something that has become a game. We are more interested in other things.
“Our troops are not using correct arms. I am told that we have arms that are less powerful than those used by the insurgents.
“Many of our soldiers have gone to other parts of West Africa. We see that we have very good soldiers who can work out things in other places, but why are the less powerful ones sent to rescue Chibok girls?
“Why can’t they send well-equipped soldiers to go out and bring back our girls and clean the hearts of their weeping mothers?
“We have an army where directors and those who give orders sit back in Abuja and send less powerful ones who to the field.
“We even make pacts with other African countries and say we are going to do this and that but we have not been able to do so, which makes us a laughing stock.”
Boko Haram terrorists stormed Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, on April 14, 2014 and took away 276 girls.
A global campaign was launched for the release of the girls under the slogan Bring Back Our Girls.
Fifty-seven of the girls escaped, three were found, while 21 were released by their abductors.
The remaining 195 are believed to be with the insurgents.
