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Nigeria Military Fueling Boko Haram Menace In Favor Of West – Chief Audu Ogbeh
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Second Republic Minister and chieftain of the All Progressives

Congress (APC), Chief Audu Ogbeh, indicted the nation’s security

forces over the recent abduction of several secondary school girls at

the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State in favour

of the western countries.

According to him, the continued dastardly operation of the Boko Haram

sect in northern parts of the country was a shame to the nation’s

The former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

told newsmen in Abuja, that it was embarrassing for the nation, which

prides itself as the giant of Africa, to have its security forces

allow criminals go on killing spree unabated.

“It is embarrassing and shocking, very strange to me; where were our

security forces when these evil men were operating? They successfully

abducted the school girls without security forces challenging them.

What of the soldiers? What of the check points mounted on those roads?

Where were the security posted to the school when the abductors

operated for several hours?, he quipped.

“I begin to suspect foul play within our security system; the

authorities should begin to look inwards, the system should be

overhauled immediately to put a stop to the madness. It is only in

Nigeria that such a thing can happen. Even in a war situation, you

don’t touch women and children, but reverse is the case here, as our

children and women are always the target,” he stated.

Chief Ogbeh, a former Communications Minister, also tongue-lashed the

security forces for misleading the nation and the entire world that

the abducted school girls had been rescued while it was untrue and

they were actually still missing.

“Can you imagine that nonsense? They lied to the whole nation that the

abducted children had been found. I watched the school principal on

the television the other day

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