Newly elected president of Naigeria Muhammadu Buhari has promised to do everything in his powers to save the more than 200 hundred abducted girls of Chibok from the hands of Boko Haram.
Buhari’s promise comes as Nigeria commemorates one year since the girls were abducted with many blaming the government fo being too slow.
His statement on Tuesday also came a day after Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai criticised Nigerian and world leaders for failing to help free the schoolgirls.
Buhari however admitted that he is not clear weather the girls would be found.
Buhari, whose presidential election win two weeks ago was the first democratic defeat of an incumbent in Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, said his administration would do everything it could to defeat the militant Islamist group. “We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued.
Their whereabouts of the girls remain unknown. ”As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them,” he said in a statement. “My government will do everything in its power to bring them home,” added the former military ruler, who said his approach would differ from that taken by President Goodluck
Nigerians are marking one year since the girls were abducted with vigils, prayers and other activities. Some are expected to March today
The intentional community was outraged when the girls were abducted from Chibok School in NorthEast Nigeria last in April last year by Boko Haram an action that drew attention to the crisis caused by the Islamist group seeking to establish a caliphate in the North a region mostly populated by Muslims.
