…As FG offers freed Chibok girls scholarships, jobs
Basking in the euphoria of the successful return of 21 of the over 200 Chibok school girls abducted by the Boko Haram sect in April 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration will continue to protect them whereever they they live.
Buhari said this while speaking with journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, shortly before he left the country to Germany.
“Well, I am very pleased about the girls’ release
“I expect you to get through to the Minister of Information and Culture.
“I believe he will be duly briefed by the Vice-President so that he will give you the details. I have just been briefed about it.
“To Nigerians all over, it is our responsibility and we will continue to secure them wherever they are,” the President said.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President, Laolu Akande, also released a statement indicating that the government was assembling medical experts that would attend to the released girls.
“The Federal Government is now gathering medical and other support and care in Abuja for the just released 21 Chibok girls,” he said.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo promised the 21 Chibok girls that the Federal Government give the girls free quality education and take care of their careers.
According to a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo made the promise while visiting the girls at the DSS Medical Centre, Abuja, where they were receiving medical attention on Thursday.
He also told them that the government had made provision for their accommodation, saying their parents were allowed to visit them.
“You can’t immediately be taken out of here because we need to be sure that you are in very good health.
“I am sure you are going to be very well taken care of. We have provided very good accommodation for you where you will stay where you will sleep and your parents will come and meet you there also.
“We are also going to see to it that everything that you require going forward, perhaps your education, those who need to go back to school, those who need to find employment, we are going to make sure that we make all the provisions for you.
“The Federal Government is very committed. The President in particular, has asked me to tell you, how excited he is. When you were away, he kept saying that if it were his daughter, he wouldn’t even know what to do,” the Vice President said.
