First Lady orders arrest of protest leader…says no girl is missing

Mrs. Jonathan, at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Presidential Villa, which began Sunday night and ended early yesterday, ordered Mutah’s arrest for alleged impersonation.Mrs Jonathan expressed anger that Naomi had claimed to be one of the parents whose daughters were abducted.“When they said they’ve come to lay complaint to the government and the National […]

Mrs. Jonathan, at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Presidential Villa, which began Sunday night and ended early yesterday, ordered Mutah’s arrest for alleged impersonation.
Mrs Jonathan expressed anger that Naomi had claimed to be one of the parents whose daughters were abducted.
“When they said they’ve come to lay complaint to the government and the National Assembly, I asked for the leader of the
mothers whose children were abducted,” she said.
“This woman (Naomi) was the one that came forward and said her child was abducted. I believed her and I asked the Women Affairs Minister to follow her to the National Assembly.
“This is the woman who went to National Assembly with the women in black and she claimed that her child was missing and that she is the leader of parents whose children are missing in Chibok.
“The Senate President believed them, even me, I believed them. She called people like Oby to follow her as they also believed her. Oby is innocent and I don’t blame her because even me as first lady, I was moved.
“Today, when I sighted her, I said within myself that we’ll get to the conclusion today because one of those whose children are missing is here. But to my greatest surprise, when we asked her, she said she is a representative. She wrote down her name as Grace. A whole civil servant impersonating. She should be arrested for impersonation.”
Mrs Jonathan therefore directed the Borno State Commissioner of Police, who was also summoned to the meeting, to take action on the matter, saying: “You’ve to take this woman to I.G. and the President” Naomi admitted no biological child of hers was among the abducted but added that she was contacted to represent one of those persons expected to attend the meeting with the First Lady.
“It was in the morning that somebody called me from Borno State, one Mrs. Grace. She said that she was supposed to come. But that since we are here as Chibok representatives, that we should come and represent her here,” she said.
Asked whether she had been to Chibok in the past one year, Naomi said : “I’ve not gone to Chibok in the past one year.”
Minister of Women Affairs Zainab Maina cut in, saying Naomi had last week claimed that he daughter was among those kidnapped.
“I saw this lady and two others on Tuesday. My deputy director came into my office and said you are talking about going to Chibok, mothers of those abducted girls from Chibok are here and they are in Eagles Square. When I asked them if they are mothers from Chibok, they said yes,” Maina said.
Mrs Jonathan then suddenly exploded: “So my sisters, you can all see that within them, they know what they’re doing. With what is happening now, will you believe that any children got missing?”
After many women in attendance responded by saying “no”, Mrs Jonathan continued: “So, we, the Nigerian women, are saying that no child is missing in Borno state. If any child is missing, let the governor go and look for them. There is nothing we can do again. We’ll now go spiritual. What we, women, should pray for now is the killings in Borno to stop. God will reveal them one by one. The blood of the innocent victims will come out and speak.”
The meeting, which ended at 3am, resolved that selected Christians and Muslims, 20 each, would assemble on Thursday “to pray for what is happening in Borno State”.
The first lady also said there was conspiracy from the outset in the registration of candidates for the 2014 WAEC exams at Chibok Government Secondary School.
Mrs Jonathan, who said one 60-year-old Chiroma Adamu was registered for the examination in the school, queried the WAEC official in attendance, Charles Eguridu thus: “Why did you register over 60 years old man for the WAEC exams? You’ve already put the people that will kidnap the girls into the hall. If Chiroma Adamu is not over 60 years, bring him here before us. Some are 50 years plus and 40 years plus. Principal, you’ve already arranged your Boko Haram.”
Responding, Eguridu said: “I want to assure this house that the result of all male candidates in the exam in that school will be vetted before they’re released.”