As the Nigerian nation is mourning looking for a way to sort out this ugly situation created by the dreaded terrorists group Boko Haram and every one nationally and internationally is praying that the girls be freed alive, I think it's not a time when we should be hearing unguided utterances from the unlikeliest of quarters.
The women leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs Kema Chikwe, yesterday surprised many when she challenged the authorities of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, where 234 female students were kidnapped on April 14, to release the names and pictures of the girls.
Chikwe threw the challenge during a prayer session tagged “Women’s Christian and Muslim prayer session for the security and unity of the nation” which held at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja.
The development came just as the nation is still protesting the abduction of 234 female students by the Boko Haram terrorists.
Chikwe said at the prayer session: “Let the truth be told with God’s intervention. Our hearts are bleeding, not just broken. Please, God, send the Chibok girls home to their mothers and families. We plead with the school authorities to release their names and their pictures. Let God touch the hearts of those who know and have perpetrated this heinous action.”
Chikwe, who described Boko Haram as a monster that has taken the lives of so many innocent Nigerians, noted: “There are many questions to be asked and many more to be answered. How did it happen? Who saw it happen? Who did not see it happen? Who is behind this? Those behind these crimes love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.
“Today, we will pray for miraculous revelations and solutions to this issue. We have convened this prayer session to bare our hearts open to God as Christians and Muslims. We shall make a way in our hearts for God to come in and settle, as we are contact points of our party members and all Nigerian women.”
But in contrast, the chairman of the prayer session, Sen. Helen Esuene, said “women are noted to stand for peace whenever there is a breach of peace or issue of environment or violence — it touches the heart of women most.
There has been series of condemnation from all sorts of place for Mrs. Chikwe's unwarranted utterance. In his reaction, the Borno State government said “By her remark, Chikwe has undermined the integrity of all of Nigeria’s security forces because her questions appear to mean that the security agencies in the country do not know what they are doing for holding a National Security Council meeting and deliberating on something that was doubtful and yet giving directives to address it.
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