Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili says President Muhammadu Buhari does not deserve to be congratulated over the release of the 344 Kankara schoolboys.
Recall that the President met the released students at the Government House in Katsina on Friday, encouraging them to put their ordeal behind them and forge ahead in their bid to acquire a good education.
Ezekwesili is a co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls, a group demanding the return of all the 276 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Borno State in 2014.
The ex-minister stated that Buhari created the conditions that made the abduction of the boys possible in the first place, hence should not be praised for their release.
According to her, the Buhari presidency has been taking Nigerians for a ride.
Ezekwesili spoke during an appearance on Channels Television Friday night.
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“For us to congratulate a government that created a problem and said it solved it? We shouldn’t be doing that.
“Society should learn how to hold people accountable. The President should be disgusted with what happened, not commending himself.
“What is he clapping for?” Ezekwesili queried.
She added, “Those children were put in harm’s way. And now he said he’s rescued them? Maybe the President sent the children on an excursion to terrorists so they can release children at will to him.
“He needs to tell us exactly what happened with the Kankara kids. There is a problem. This country should not be taken for a ride by President Buhari and his government.”
“This is very unbecoming, and the whole world is laughing at us. They think we are jokers.
“Many countries didn’t even bother to show that anything had happened in our country because they felt who are these people and what are they doing to themselves?” Ezekwesili said.