The Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) also known as Chibok community has decried the neglect of over 100 school girls abducted in 2014.
The community said the release of the remaining Abuja-Kaduna train attack victims on Wednesday showed clearly that the federal government has abandoned Chibok community, including their children that were abducted in their school in 2014.
The cry followed a statement from the Secretary, Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee (CDSAC), Prof Usman Yusuf, announcing that all the 23 remaining passengers abducted from a Kaduna-bound train on March 28, 2022, have been released by their abductors.
The statement which was Tweeted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s new media aide, Bashir Ahmad, made all the sons and daughters of Chibok around the world to raise concern that they have been abandoned.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Wednesday, the National President of KADA, Dauda Ndirpaya Iliya, said the matter of the abducted Chibok girls and the unending attacks on their communities is still persisting.
“The issue of the abandonment of the Chibok School Girls has come forth again following the release of the remaining abducted train victims largely due to the efforts of the federal government and especially the military under the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor.
“The statement in particular has caused the Chibok people pain and caused us despair and a deep feeling of neglect and abandonment by the federal government,” Iliya said, adding that despite not releasing their girls, the Chibok community has been facing unprecedented attacks from terrorists.
“The latest attack in Chibok happened only on Oct 3, 2022 in Njlang, a village just 5 Km away from Chibok, ” Iliya said.
Earlier, the Kibaku (Chibok) Area Development Association (KADA) had called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue Chibok community, an ethnic nationality, from total annihilation by the Boko Haram terrorists.
They said since the mass abduction of the 276 of their daughters in April, 2014, wherein 57 escaped (on their own), they have 110 of them still unaccounted for.
“The parents and the Community have continued to be subjected to persistent and sustained attacks, killings, abductions, maiming, arson and other myriads of criminality without adequate government protection. Chibok has been for all intents and purposes abandoned to its own devices by all layers of government in Nigeria.
“The government and the security agencies are handling the rehabilitation of the escaped/rescued girls without involvement of the parents and publicly parading them to make statements that appear coercive without reuniting with their parents,” the group said.
