“Nigeria has the problem of failed institutions, bad governance” – Ezekwesili blasts FG on Chibok Girls Abduction

A former Education Minister and co-coordinator of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Oby Ezekwesili has vented her anger on the Federal Government over its failure to rescue the Chibok schoolgirls 100 days after.
Ezekwesili, while speaking on BBC interview programme, Hardtalk, expressed disappointment over Federal Government’s poor attitude towards the kidnapped girls.
Asked if her campaign was politically motivated, the  former Vice President of the World Bank said, “we have never been political and people in the campaign are mothers and people who are genuinely aggrieved that the girls were whisked away.
“I don’t understand the politics aspect. I have never been a politician. I was a Minister in a presidential system of government, not a parliamentary system where I have to stand for an election to be a Minister. I have never been in politics. Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo will laugh his head off each time he hears that characterization of me,” she said.
Asked if negotiation or military approach should be used to rescue the girls, she said the government, with better information, was in a better position to know the best approach.
Hear her, “There could be combination of solutions. The one with better information is in a position to come up with a combination of options. What I don’t like is no action… I feel today, there is need to avoid every form of inertia.”
On whether the government should swap the abducted girls for the members of the sect in prison, the ex-minister said it is not the way forward.

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