The Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) Chibok, says the community is under threat of annihilation following attacks and kidnapping by terrorists.
The community has therefore called on the government and international community to save them from the from Boko Haram terrorists.
Chibok is a community in Borno State.
In a statement issued and signed by the National President and National Director, Media and Publicity, Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) Dauda Ndirpaya Iliya and Dr. Manasseh Allen respectively, the group stated: “Our people and homelands are in danger. Our homes, farms, barns, and places of worship are destroyed. We are unable to exercise our religious freedoms as we prefer. Our very existence is under grave threat.”
The community also noted that there was not much effort on the part of the government “to permanently end the scourge of Boko Haram terrorism, and restore peace in our homelands in particular, and the North-East in general.”
The Association lamented that nearly six years after the abduction of 276 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, 112 of the girls were still held captive by their abductors.
“Today (February 2) is also 2, 120 days since 276 of our daughters schooling at Government Secondary School, Chibok, were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists on the night of 14th April 2014. Some escaped, others were rescued, but as of this day, 112 of them remain in captivity,” the statement said.
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The full text of the state issued on Sunday read:
“On 24th December, the Christmas Eve of 2019, there was a Boko Haram attack on Kwarangilum, 5 persons, Philemon Ishaya, Maina Kabu, Jinguna Bango, Salfi Njamina, and Daniel Thomas were killed. Five others, Patience Ishaku, Awagana Kwakwi, Wavi Maina and wife, Ibrahim Maina were abducted, with 143 houses burnt, several herds of live: cattle, sheep, goats, chicken were carted away.
“Five days later, on 29th December, 2019 at about 5:45 pm, in Mandaragrau, (Biu Local Government Area, Borno State), 17 Chibok people (children and adults) were abducted till today without trace. They are Rhoda Ishaku and her children, Esther Ishaku (Primary 2) and Ayuba Ishaku (Primary 1); Esther Aaron (a widow) with her children, Elijah Aaron, Yakub Aaron, and Salama Aaron. Others are Joy Ishaku (JSS 3), Samuel Ishaya (Primary 2), Samaila Yakub (Primary 3), Adamu Yakub (Primary 3), Naomi Yakub (JSS 2), Samuel Daniel (Primary 3), John Musa (Primary 5), Lydia Musa ( Primary 4), Saraya Musa (Primary 1), Happy Isuwa (Primary 1), Lydia Ibrahim (Primary 5).
“Another 5 days later, four weeks ago, on 3rd January, 3 persons were injured as houses, vehicles, and food items were burnt to ashes in Bila Ambuldar. The day before, on the 2nd of January, Reverend Lawan Andimi, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman in Michika Loca Government Area, Adamawa State, who is a Kibaku from Kwada, Kautakari, was abducted. Two week ago, on Monday, 20th January, he was publicly beheaded by Boko Haram terrorists.
“This brief summary highlights the relentless attacks by Boko Haram terrorists on us, the Kibaku people (also called the ‘Chibok Community’) in just the last 5 weeks. This has been a recurring pattern since 2014.
“Today is also 2, 120 days since 276 of our daughters schooling at Government Secondary School, Chibok, were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists on the night of 14th April 2014. Some escaped, others were rescued, but as of this day, 112 of them remain in captivity.
“On 14 January, 2016, during our second (and so far, the last) meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, Abuja; he promised to constitute a Presidential Panel of Inquiry to closely interrogate the suspicious abduction of our daughters in their school in 2014, whereby as a community, would be able to make inputs also. This Presidential Panel of Inquiry, as announced that day, is yet to be constituted, 4 years on.
“We do not know where our daughters are and do not have information from the Federal Government when they will be rescued and brought home, or if there is any ongoing effort at all.
“The Federal Government, as well as the Army, have since 2015 repeatedly announced that Boko Haram terrorists have been ‘technically defeated’, and not able to carry out attacks. This has NOT been our experience.
“The Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) wishes to cry out and put it on the record that we are being targeted for attacks and annihilation, whether at home or wherever we are. Our people and homelands are in danger. Our homes, farms, barns, and places of worship are destroyed. We are unable to exercise our religious freedoms as we prefer. Our very existence is under grave threat.
“We also do NOT notice much effort by the government to permanently end the scourge of Boko Haram terrorism, and restore peace in our homelands in particular, and the North-East in general; nor the return of our 112 daughters held in captivity for close to 6 years.
“Despite global efforts to renovate, rehabilitate and reopen their school, Government Secondary School, Chibok (with the intention of defeating the terrorists’ objective) through the Safe Schools Initiative which was initiated by the then UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr. Gordon Brown, in May 2014, following the attack, it has been abandoned and remains closed as an abandoned project, to this day.
“It should also be noted that of the 20 Chibok girls’ parents — our kinsmen and women — who are now deceased, 11 were killed during Boko Haram attacks, 8 died of heart conditions as a result of trauma, with those alive subsisting with various degrees of heart conditions and trauma along with their resultant effects.
“Please Save Our Souls!”
