Presidency Welcomes 21 Chibok Girls

THE Presidency, yesterday, affirmed the arrival of 21 Chibok school young ladies, taking after exchange with pioneers of Boko Haram, their abductors, following 911 days in imprisonment. "We can affirm that 21 of the young ladies were discharged, securely, to us by 5.30 this Thursday morning (yesterday) and they were traveled to Kaduna from the area of their discharge. 

This is the most glaring appearance, to date, of the enduring responsibility of Mr. President to secure safe arrival of the young ladies and rejoin them with their families. It is additionally an aftereffect of the round-the-clock endeavors by the organization to put a conclusion to the miserable issue of the abduct of the young ladies. We anticipate that the discharged young ladies will arrive in Abuja right away,' the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said. VP Yemi Osinbajo got 21 of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram fear based oppressors from Chibok, Borno State, 911 days prior, yesterday in Abuja PHOTOS: Abayomi Adeshida According to the minster, "there is no truth in reports that the young ladies were swapped with kept Boko Haram guerillas. The young ladies' discharge was secured in light of an exceptionally sensitive transaction and certainty worked over the time," he pushed. It had been before reported that the young ladies were liberated in a swap for kept Boko Haram pioneers. As indicated by the report, four confined Boko Haram pioneers were discharged on Wednesday night at Banki, a town on the upper east outskirt with Cameroon. The young ladies were among the 219 understudies kidnapped by the radicals in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014. One of them, Amina Ali Nkeki, had recently, got away from the abductors' grasp and was gotten by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Transactions fizzled a year ago, when Boko Haram requested a payoff of $5.2 billion for the young ladies' opportunity, as per an as of late distributed approved history of President Muhammadu Buhari by American student of history, John Paden. Undoubtedly, an elated President Buhari, who shot out to Germany, yesterday, respected the arrival of the young ladies and guaranteed to examine the issue with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. "As I withdraw Abuja for Germany on an official visit, I respect the arrival of 21 of our Chibok Girls, taking after effective arrangements," Buhari said on Twitter, a couple of minutes after the news broke out. "The Department of State Services (DSS) has advised me on the matter, and will keep on providing redesigns. Participation on the security and philanthropic circumstance in the Northeast will shape a noteworthy piece of my dialogs with Chancellor Merkel," he included. Opportunity for the 21 young ladies evoked bliss in the Borno State Government House and from the Bring Back Our Girls bunch, BBOG, which has been in the vanguard of the campaign to get the young ladies liberated. Without President Buhari, the young ladies were gotten by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Respecting the young ladies, Osinbajo said: "Welcome back young ladies!" "I am certain you realize that the entire nation has been sitting tight for you to return, all these numerous months, the entire nation has been holding up that, one day, we will see you again and we are exceptionally glad to see you back! "We are going to bring your folks, your folks will come here to go along with you. "You can't promptly be removed from here in light of the fact that we should make sure that you are healthy. "I am certain you will be extremely well dealt with. We have given great convenience to you where you will stay, where you will rest and your folks will come and meet you there moreover. "We are additionally going to see to it that everything that you require going ahead, maybe your instruction, the individuals who need to do a reversal to class, the individuals who need to discover vocation, we are going to make that we make every one of the arrangements for you." Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, who likewise affirmed the arrival of the 21 young ladies, expressed that the young ladies, who were in the guardianship of the DSS would be gotten by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The young ladies were in the end got by Osinbajo and different dignitaries, including the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The names of discharged young ladies The 21 young ladies whose names were discharged, the previous evening, by the Presidency, included Mary Usman Bulama; Jummai John; Blessing Abana; Lugwa Sanda; Comfort Habila; Maryam Basheer; Comfort Amos; Glory Mainta; Saratu Emmanuel; Deborah Ja'afaru; Rahab Ibrahim and Helen Musa. Others are Maryamu Lawan; Rebecca Ibrahim; Asabe Goni; Deborah Andrawus; Agnes Gapani; Saratu Markus; Glory Dama; Pindah Nuhu; and Rebecca Mallam. Lai Mohmmmed talking with 21 of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram fear based oppressors from Chibok, Borno State, 911 days back, yesterday in Abuja. Photographs: Abayomi Adeshida "The arrival of the young ladies, in a predetermined number, is the result of arrangements between the organization and the Boko Haram handled by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government. The transactions will proceed. The President respects the arrival of the young ladies however advised Nigerians to be aware of the way that more than 30,000 kindred subjects were executed by means of fear based oppression," Shehu said in an announcement. FG amasses group of specialists, therapists, others for liberated young ladies Ahead of the landing of the young ladies in Abuja, Lai Mohammed told writers that the Federal Government had collected a group of restorative specialists, clinicians, social laborers, injury specialists, and so forth, to legitimately look at the young ladies, particularly in light of the fact that they had been in bondage for so long. He likewise revealed that administration will satisfactorily question the young ladies and had begun reaching their folks as a feature of the important check work out. How the arrangement was struck On how the arrangement was struck, the clergyman said: "We have been taking a shot at the protected arrival of the young ladies and taking after every one of the leads accessible. In this case, the minute we had a valid lead, Mr President gave the green-light to the DSS to seek after it. We can affirm that the DSS sought after the lead as a team with an agreeable European nation and an eminent worldwide philanthropic association. The DSS was bolstered by the military. "When the essential certainty was based on both sides, the gatherings concurred on the date and the area of the arrival of the 21 young ladies. If you don't mind take note of this is not a swap. It is a discharge, the result of careful transactions and trust on both sides. "We consider this to be a tenable initial phase in the inevitable arrival of all the Chibok Girls in bondage. It is additionally a noteworthy stride in certainty working between us as a legislature and the Boko Haram authority on the issue of the Chibok Girls." Confirming the restorative and mental consideration the administration was paying to the young ladies, Mr. Laolu Akande, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's representative, in a tweet, said, the "FG is presently assembling restorative and other support and administer to the just discharged 21 Chibok young ladies." BBOG praises FG, inclinations satisfactory security for others The Bring Back Our Girls BBOG development has recognized the Federal Government and its worldwide accomplices for yesterday's "arranged arrival of 21 of our kidnapped ChibokGirls." In an announcement issued in Abuja, the BBOG said the activity has facilitate affirmed the limit of government to protect every one of the young ladies. "We invite reports from the Presidential Spokesperson, Garba Shehu, of the arranged arrival of 21 of our stole Chibok young ladies today. This superb improvement affirms what we have constantly thought about the limit of our legislature to save our Chibok young ladies. The development promote requested that the Federal Government guarantee the wellbeing and prosperity of those still in imprisonment. Borno govt communicates satisfaction The Borno State Government additionally communicated joy over the arrival of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls. Talking on the advancement, Governor, Kashim Shettima, in an announcement by Malam Isa Gusau, representative to the Borno Governor, said: "As individuals of Borno State vexed by the passings and devastation of Boko Haram revolt, one of our real wellsprings of quality since May 29, 2015, has been the undiluted earnestness we found in President Muhammadu Buhari in view of his organization's totally honest to goodness duty towards recuperating our schoolgirls, a large number of other ladies and kids held in bondage, and also finishing the rebellion keeping in mind the end goal to secure the lives of our subjects and clear a path for recreation, resettlement and other improvement projects and tasks. "We had confidence in Buhari from the very day he took off as President. The means he continued bringing in managing the revolt consistently demonstrated his earnestness. On the off chance that any Nigerian or individuals from the worldwide group had questions about the genuineness and duty of President Muhammadu Buhari to the protect of our valuable little girls snatched by Boko Haram extremists at Government Secondary School, Chibok on April 14, 2014, the safeguard of all other stole Nigerians and significantly, his truthfulness in working towards finishing the Boko Haram revolt, such questions should at this point be let go. Senator Shettima left Abuja with President Muhammadu Buhari' as a feature of the Presidential appointment to Germany. Saraki, Harriman, others hail young ladies' opportunity Senate President Bukola Saraki hailed President Buhari for the arrival of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls, pretty much as he restated the dedication of the Senate to bolster the Federal Government to secure the arrival of alternate young ladies. In an announcement from his Media office, yesterday, the Senate President said: "We join all Nigerians to celebrate on the arrival of our little girls. Our contemplations and supplications stay with the groups of the individuals who have returned, and those young ladies who stay in the hands

 Source: Vanguard