Over 200 Chibok Girls missing: Jonathan calls for Governor Shettima’s prosecution

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered for the immediate prosecution for ignoring security report over the missing Chibok girls who have been in captivity for 329 days.

President Jonathan’s stand was made known by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has berated the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, for allegedly ignoring security reports and the counsel of the Federal Government against holding the 2014 May/June West African Examination Council in Chibok.

Fani-Kayode said the abducted Chibok schoolgirls would have been saved the ordeal to which they have been subjected these past 329 days had the governor taken the advice and acted in accordance with the security reports that the town was not safe for the examinations.

He said the governor should be ready for investigation and prosecution after leaving office if found complicit in the circumstances that led to the abduction of the girls.

The former Minister of Aviation said this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, by his Special Assistant (Media), Mr. Sufuyan Ojeifo, in response to Governor Shettima’s attack on Fani-Kayode over his comments on the fate of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram.

The PDPPCO spokesperson said, “Shettima will not be governor forever and when he is no longer in office, his role in the Chibok affair would be investigated and, if found wanting, he would be prosecuted.”

He accused the governor of reflecting the thinking of his party over the whole mess that his insensitivity allowed to happen.

The statement said, “The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima is the most irresponsible, insensitive and callous governor in Nigeria.

“He is a wicked man whose mindset reflects the thinking of his party, All Progressives Congress. He, more than anybody else, is responsible for the abduction of the Chibok girls.

“And he should bear full responsibility for it. The man should shut up and bow his head in shame because it was due to his irresponsibility as the chief security officer of Borno State that those little girls in Chibok were abducted, raped, sold into slavery and subjected to terror.”

He added that the circumstances that led to the abduction of the innocent girls, who were writing their examination in an environment that was everything but secure, underscored the governor’s negligence.

Fani-Kayode added that the governor must give account to God and to the Nigerian people for what he has done to those girls.

He said, “We are accusing him of being responsible for the abduction of the Chibok girls because he was warned by the Federal Government and by the West African Examination Council not to allow the examination take place in Chibok.

“He ignored the warning and promised to guarantee security for those girls. When time came, the governor did not even deploy one policeman, let alone adequate security.

“He betrayed the girls; he set them up; he opened the door for them to be abducted by the Boko Haram and instead of asking for forgiveness and repenting of his wicked ways, he is talking nonsense. “

He said in any other country, the governor would have been arrested and prosecuted for collaborating with Boko Haram, but regretted that in Nigeria, instead of him showing remorse, he (the governor) went all over the world attacking President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government over the Chibok affair.