Members of the Chibok community have
said with the turn of event, their community and the whole of Borno
State have been placed under a state of emergency by the Boko Haram sect
and not the federal government.
They said that they do not see how
the federal government can claim to be in control of the state and have
it under a state of emergency when the insurgents continue to prove to
the people that they are more powerful than the federal government.
According to an elder from Chibok,
Ayuba Alamson, the community is tired of believing in the government and
have handed their situation to God because He alone can deliver them
from all their pains and suffering.
He stated this yesterday, in a
telephone conversation where he said that only God can save them since
the president that promised to protect them when they visited him has
failed in his promise.
According to him, “If they can
capture this amount of communities in Borno State that is under the
state of emergency, they are simply telling us that they are more
powerful than the federal governmentý.
“As long as we can see, it is Boko
Haram and not the federal government that have placed us on a state of
emergency right now which is quite unfortunate.
“With the look of things right now,
we can now only depend on God and ask him to come and deliver us, that
is all I can sayý, for long, we had been crying and asking the
government for protection but they have been unable to do anything. We
are completely frustrated, we have been neglected for long and I pray
God, the owner of life will do something because with him all things are
possible, that is our only hope now.
“We are now leaving our faith to God because we are tired of complaining to a government that ignores our cries.”
He also said, “Ever since the kidnap
of our daughters, we have been living in fear, after the event many of
us migrated to Maiduguri, Mubi and other parts around but most of our
people returned back to Chibok after Mubi fell since at that time Chibok
was relatively safe.
“Some tried to return to their
normal life of farming and some people have even begun harvesting their
hard worký but now, Boko Haram returned and everybody fled into bushes
and caves, some might have died in the process, some may be haunted by
wild animals, some might die of hypertension.”
“Now all of us from Chibok are
frustrated, Boko Haram had already kidnapped our girls for long and have
killed some, we expected the government to give us the protection it
promised us when we visited Mr. President but now they have allowed Boko
Haram to come back and capture the whole area.”
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