Chibok, beginning of Boko Haram’s end – JONATHAN

                    

President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram Islamist sect was the beginning of the end of terror in the country.
president, who received unprecedented pledges of support in human and material resources to end the Boko Haram insurgency from world leaders in the last three days, said he was confident that the carnage of the terrorists would come to an end soon.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama of the United States of America, USA, has said that the kidnapping of Nigerian girls and sectarian conflicts worldwide are a sign that “we have not extinguished man’s darkest impulses.”
Obama spoke while accepting humanitarian award from legendary movie director, Steven Spielberg at the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, a Holocaust museum founded by Spielberg after he made the film “Schindler’s List.”
On the flip side, President Obama’s wife, Michelle, has joined a global campaign to free the Chibok girls.
In a personal message on Twitter, Mrs Obama wrote: “Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families.”

She also posted a photo of herself holding a placard with the message “#BringBackOurGirls,” referring to the Twitter hashtag that is mobilising support and used more than 1.6 million times on social networking platforms.
In addition, Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai, a 16 year old shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012, has added her voice to the campaign, appealing on Twitter for donations toward Nigerian education and empowerment programmes.
President Jonathan spoke at the official opening of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Abuja, on a day two West African countries, Niger and Mali expressed their readiness to do everything possible to help Nigeria rescue the abducted girls.
Pres. Jonathan said: “Let me thank all of you for coming to Nigeria at this trying time when we are facing terrorist attacks. Your coming here to support us is a blow on the terrorists.
“If you had stayed away, they (terrorists) would have been jubilating and even probably want to cause more havoc, because that is exactly what they want.
“Foreign governments have offered to help end the crisis and I can say that the kidnapping of the girls is the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has decried the uncertainties and conflicting information surrounding the abduction of the students.
In a statement, President of SSANU, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, said the singular act by Boko Haram was enough crime to bring the group and its activities in Nigeria to an end.