Shettima May Face Prosecution Over Chibok Girls
Shettima May Face Prosecution Over Chibok Girls
Governor Kasim Shettima of Borno State has been put on notice to prepare for prosecution over the alleged curious manner with which the Chibok girls were exposed to the attack and abduction of insurgents under his watch. The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode said this yesterday in a statement noting that, should the governor be found culpable after investigation, he would be prosecuted. Fani-Kayode berated Governor Shettima, for allegedly ignoring security reports and the counsel of the Federal Government against holding the 2014 May/June West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Chibok 330 days ago.
Fani-Kayode said the abducted Chibok school girls would have been saved the ordeal to which they have been subjected these past 329 days had the governor taken the advice and acted in accordance with the security reports that the town was not safe for the examinations. He stressed that Governor Shettima should be ready for investigation and prosecution after leaving office if found complicit in the circumstances that led to the abduction of the girls. Fani-Kayode who was responding to Governor Shettima’s attack on his comments on the fate of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram, the PDP-PCO spokesperson was quoted to have said: “Shettima will not be governor forever and when he is no longer in office, his role in the Chibok affair would be investigated and, if found wanting, he would be prosecuted.” He accused the governor of reflecting the thinking of his party over the whole mess that his insensitivity allowed to happen.
The statement reads: “The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima is the most irresponsible, insensitive and callous governor in Nigeria. He is a wicked man whose mindset reflects the thinking of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC). He, more than anybody else, is responsible for the abduction of the Chibok girls. “And he should bear full responsibility for it. The man should shut up and bow his head in shame because it was due to his irresponsibility as the chief security officer of Borno State that those little girls in Chibok were abducted, raped, sold into slavery and subjected to terror. “The circumstances that led to the abduction of the innocent girls, who were writing their examination in an environment that was everything but secure, underscored the governor’s negligence.
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