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President Buhari Meets with #BringBackOurGirls Activists


This week, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured) did something his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, refused to do: meet with #BringBackOurGirls activists, reports the BBC.

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After more than 200 girls were kidnapped last April, then-President Jonathan refused to meet with #BringBackOurGirls activists, although he reluctantly accepted to meet with a group of parents of the missing girls and escapees at the prodding of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai three months later.

Incumbent President Buhari, though, once again showed that their is a new order in Nigeria by deciding to meet with the activists, after they marched through the capital (pictured).

As relatives of the missing girls shed tears, Oby Ezekwesili said at the meeting, “The rescue of the Chibok girls would be the strongest statement this government could make for having respect for the sanctity and dignity of every Nigerian life.”

President Buhari reportedly spoke freely at the meeting, criticizing Jonathan and his administration for “incompetence” with both Boko Haram and the missing girls.

He promised attendees that the regional task force, including Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria, of nearly 8,000 troops would be in place by July’s end.

Unfortunately, Boko Haram has been an elusive foe; just last week, they reportedly killed more than 220 civilians with a series of bomb attacks.

RELATED: Boko Haram Survivors: Chibok Girls Are Brainwashed, Terrorize Civilians Alongside Terrorists

Abena Agyeman-Fisher

Abena Agyeman-Fisher is the Editor-in-Chief of Face2Face Africa. Most recently, she worked for Interactive One as the Senior Editor of NewsOne, she worked for AOL as the News Programming Manager of Black Voices, which later became HuffPo Black Voices, and for the New York Times Company as an Associate Health Editor. Abena, a Spelman College graduate, has been published in Al Jazeera, the Daily Beast, New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger, the Grio, BlackVoices, West Orange Patch, About.com, the Source, Vibe, Vibe Vixen, Jane, and Upscale Magazines. She has interviewed top celebrities, icons, and politicians, such as First Lady Michelle Obama, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, Civil Rights activist and diplomat Andrew Young, comedian Bill Cosby, Grammy Award-winning singer Jill Scott, actress and singer Queen Latifah, Olympic Gold winner Cullen Jones, international supermodel Alek Wek, and five-division world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather. Most recently, she served as the First Lady’s press reporter during President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Africa Summit, Young African Leaders Institute event, and the 2013 presidential trip to Senegal, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Tanzania. Abena is also a 2015 International Women's Media Foundation Africa Great Lakes Fellow, where she reported on women candidates and Chinese sweatshops in Tanzania for CNN and Refinery29.

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