PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday that his government did not neglect the remaining girls in captivity.

The schoolgirls were kidnapped from the Chibok village, Borno State, by Boko Haram terrorists in April 2014.

He expressed hope that the remaining schoolgirls would still be safe again.

Mallam Garba Shehu, President Buhari, said in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity that security and intelligence networks in the country did not rest on the mission of rescuing the children.

The President extended his good wishes to the citizens of the Chibok nation, who held prayers and thanksgiving services to mark the kidnapping’s sixth-year memorial, but regretted that the government was unable to allow participation in the memorial this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on movements.

He was quoted as saying: “The armed forces of the country who are on general operations in the entire region continue in their hope that they would encounter these girls, as they did thousands of other hostages, rescue and bring them back home.

“The nation’s security and intelligence community, in whom a lot of hope is reposed in rescuing the abducted girls, is making a lot of efforts using backroom channels to get them back to their families.

“These are processes, formal and informal, that involve different groups with links to the terrorists, and are very tedious and uneasy as is seen in different parts of the world.

“The issue of the Chibok girls is not a forgotten issue. We cannot go to sleep over this matter. We are optimistic that ongoing efforts will yield something positive. “Unfortunately, an ongoing crisis within the Boko Haram leadership, which has led to factions and breakaway groups, brought a number of unforeseen challenges to the process of negotiating with the militants for the young women’s release.

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