Jonathan must work assiduously to free Chibok schoolgirls –Kalu

A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor
Kalu, has said President Goodluck Jonathan
must work assiduously to free the schoolgirls
abducted from the Government Girls
Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.

Kalu, who spent the Children’s Day fasting
and praying for the release of the abducted
girls, said Nigeria would lose face in the
comity of nations should anything untoward
happen to the girls.

In a statement signed by his Special Adviser,
Oyekunle Oyewumi, Kalu said: “The President
must do all he can to ensure these girls are
freed.

“It has been a tortuous period for every
Nigerian and all concerned all over the world
as it has become a dark spot in the annals of
the history of the country.”

Kalu said despite the fact that he was totally
opposed to negotiating the freedom of
arrested Boko Haram members for the
schoolgirls, the President was in the best
position to decide the best way out of the
quagmire.

He congratulated all children in Nigeria and
all over the world on the occasion of the 2014
Children’s Day and prayed that next year’s
would be celebrated with fanfare as no other
calamity would befall the Nigerian child.