Parents of the recently released Chibok girls have appealed to the Federal and Borno State Government to secure admission to fourteen of the girls to enable them complete their studies.
The Parents made the plea while briefing Newsmen in Maiduguri.
One of the Parent, Mr Pogu Yaga Father of Yana Pogu who was rescued by the military last year remarked that his daughter is still at the rehabilitation Centre in Maiduguri four months after her release.
According to him, his daughter and thirteen others rescued last year neither attend school or taught vocational skills contrary to their counterparts that are studying in different schools within and outside the country.
“Some of Chibok girls have been in the Camp for more than one year without any form of education, initially we were told that they will be taken to Abuja few weeks after their release, as am talking to you now, they are still in Bulumkutu Rehabilitation centre ” Yaga lamented.
Another Parent, Ayuba Alamson urged the Federal Government to fulfil the Promise earlier made regarding the education of the Chibok girls.
Reacting, Borno State Commissioner for Women Affairs Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo said they have been providing the needed care for the rescued Chibok girls who have been traumatised.
According to her, the State Government has begun the Process of Securing admission in Maiduguri when Association of Parents of the girls resisted that their Children will only go to Schools where their colleagues are studying.
“The Inter-Ministerial Committee comprising of Ministers of Women Affairs, Humanitarian Affairs and Security Agencies were in Maiduguri and interacted with the fourteen Chibok girls and Promised that they will soon come back to take the girls to Abuja to continue with the studies ” Zuwaira Gambo stated.
The Commissioner Confirmed that the State Government had written to the Presidency on the matter with immediate dispatch of an Inter-Ministerial delegation awaiting response of the Federal Government.
Cov/Dauda Iliya