Abducted school girls must be freed – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has again promised the nation that the abducted students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State will be freed, and reiterating his administration’s commitment to ending insurgency.
The President spoke during the celebration of the 2014 Workers’ Day at Eagle Square, Abuja.
While enjoining all Nigerians to cooperate with the government in its effort to halt insurgency, the President also insisted that those behind the Nyanya bomb blast must be brought to book.
According to Jonathan: “The recent atrocities by terrorists, particularly the Nyanya Motor Park bombing of mainly working class citizens, as well as the cruel abduction of some innocent girls, our future mothers and leaders, in a very horrific and despicable situation in Borno State, is quite regrettable.
“The government is constantly reviewing and upgrading mechanism to curb this mindless act and together, with the cooperation of the citizenry, we shall triumph over all this evil that wants to debase our humanity or obstruct our progress as a nation.
“Those who want to re-write our history negatively will not be allowed to do that.
“Those who want to re-define our country to be seen as a country of chaos will never succeed.
“We will continue to work hard to ensure the security of our people.
“We must find our missing girls and for this act of terror in Nyanya that led to the loss of lives of our people, the perpetrators must be brought to book.”
Speaking, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdulwahed Omar, regretted that so far, the war on terror seems not yielding the expected result.
Omar said: “We do not need any one to tell us that we have a serious situation on our hands.
“The war on terror does not seem to be going on well at the moment.
“Our security forces despite gallant efforts have suffered reversals, taking direct hits in their critical asset areas, raising concerns about their capacity or willingness to win this war.
“We are not unaware of the complexities of a war of this nature but we demand better initiative and more commitment.”
Present at the occasion were the FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, other ministers and top government functionaries.