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The
Chadian Ambassador to Nigeria, Issa Brahim, has told Nigerians that his
country has no hand in the abduction of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls
and the insecurity currently rocking Nigeria. He stated this yesterday
while addressing the BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) campaigners who carried
their protest to the Embassy in Abuja.The peaceful protest embarked upon by members of the group was to unveil the truth behind the widespread rumours suggesting that Chad was clandestinely supporting the Boko Haram insurgents. Responding, the diplomat argued that if there is any person that should be held responsible for the grouse of the BBOG, it should be the Nigeria government which had repeatedly claimed to know where these girls are kept.
The Chadian envoy further noted that, unlike Nigeria, the republic of Chad has no fear of Boko Haram because their ways of practicing Islam is different from that of Nigerians.
When queried about the botched ceasefire deal which was and handled by the Chadian President, Idriss Déby and an alleged report that a close associate of the Chadian President, Mahamat Bichara Gnoti, was reported to have been apprehended on the Chadian-Sudan border with 19 SAM2 missiles he allegedly purchased from the Sudanese army for Boko Haram terrorists, Brahim said he only read about them on the pages of newspapers just like every other person.
Reiterating that the Chadian government had nothing to do with the Boko Haram sect, the Ambassador averred that his country was part of the France meeting and another meeting held in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, where the solution on how to tackle Boko Haram were agreed on.
Apparently not satisfied with the envoy’s explanations, the BBOG charged him to forward their unanswered questions to his president, stressing that the group will not relent until the girls are rescued and peacefully returned to their parents. It was gathered that the group got a hostile reception from one Dr Mohammed, who identified himself as the Deputy Ambassador.
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