President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu speaks on Sowore
and Dasuki’s release. (file photo).
The Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to
President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has described those who
are in doubt about the Federal Government’s ability to protect
Nigerians as mischievous.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Mr Garba also said the
administration has the will and has demonstrated unquestionable
capacity to protect Nigerians.
“Those who doubt this Government’s resolve are mischievous,” he
said, adding that “it is an administration empowered to draw
enormous resilience from innate reservoirs of human resources, a
network of reliable intelligence sources, and demonstrated
expertise in scenario building and mediation”.
Mr Garba said this against the backdrop of the recent abduction
and release of the Kankara schoolboys in Katsina State.
According to him, many of those who continue to doubt the
ability of the president to protect citizens, have other
motives.
He further stated that while many were heartbroken by the
abduction and staying hopeful for good news, others who he
described as “crass, shameful and despicable”, were profiting from
the misfortune.
December 18, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the
abducted students in Kankara following their release by their
captors.
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“Indeed emergency activists thought they could cash in on these
schoolboys and their parents’ misfortune devoid of their
conscience.
“While patriotic Nigerians prayed for the boys’ quick return,
these merchants of fortune were renting crowds, creating certain
suspicious hashtags, opening bank accounts for the sole aim of
soliciting funds for a cause they thought would linger. What will
they do now with the one million T-Shirts they have produced? This
is hugely shameful. These scavengers should now be honourable
enough to refund the monies they have so far collected for the now
futile campaign to discredit their fatherland”.
After the kidnap of the schoolboys last week, #BringBackOurBoys
began to trend on social media, in reference to a similar hashtag
used after Boko Haram abducted schoolgirls (many of whom remain
missing) in Chibok and Dapchi in 2014 and 2018 respectively.
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