This action, if true, is a clear case of failed escapism, trivialising and diverting attention from the issue at stake. It may have been naive of Madam Mutuah to have written her name as Grace when she had the authority and consent of her people to represent them at the meeting that Mrs Patience Jonathan called.
The question is: did she do that with some ulterior motive, e.g. to gain some favours at the expense and detriment of Chibok people or an innocent oversight? The statement credited to first lady to the effect that “She (Mrs Mutuah) should be arrested for impersonation” must have been interpreted as an order to arrest the lady by police, who accordingly implemented the order.
The explanations by police that Mrs Mutuah “was only invited as part of measures to get useful information that could help security agents find and rescue the female students is an afterthought. The intention is to cow these women into abandoning their objective of highlighting the fact of the abductions and the government’s inept response.
The first lady’s attempt to discredit the women by asserting that no girl was missing with a view to casting doubt in the minds of her audience is really, really troubling. She should do the nation a favour by stopping to abuse people’s intelligence and advise her husband to hasten the rescue of our girls.
Mukhtar Funtua,
Inuwa Wada Road, Kaduna
