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Garba Shehu, Media Aide to President MuhammaduBuhari, has asked the #BringBackOurBoys campaigners to return the money they allegedly collected for their campaign for the rescue of the 344 abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina.
Recall the government secured the release of the students on Thursday and they have since reunited with their families.
However, in an article titled, ‘Five Takeaways from the Safe Return of 344 Kankara Schoolboys’ on Sunday, Shehu said while patriotic citizens prayed for the safe return of the students, “these merchants” were renting crowds and trending suspicious hashtags”.
“There will always be profiteers from other people’s misfortune. The lack of patriotism shown by few unnecessary elements in a moment of national distress was crass, shameful and despicable,” he said.
“If they are not directly affected by a tragedy or no immediate family member involved, it is fair game for them and time to gloat or even make a few fast bucks. Indeed emergency activists thought they could cash in on these schoolboys and their parents’ misfortune devoid of their conscience.
“While patriotic Nigerians prayed for the boys’ quick return, these merchants of fortune were renting crowds, creating certain suspicious hashtags, opening bank accounts for the sole aim of soliciting funds for a cause they thought would linger. What will they do now with the one million T-Shirts they have produced?
“This is hugely shameful. These scavengers should now be honourable enough to refund the monies they have so far collected for the now futile campaign to discredit their fatherland.”
The Presidential Media Aide also noted that Buhari and the parents of the boys would have been traumatised if a student had died.
“They had a plan, kept to it, and got the job done without firing a single shot. This is important because one casualty, one dead schoolboy, could have traumatized President Buhari and the parents,” he said.
“One dead student would have tainted the rescue mission. The President wanted the boys back alive and delivered to their parents. As a compassionate father figure, he would have been pained if one life had been lost in the rescue process.
“Bravo to the Nigerian Military and our security agencies for a well-coordinated and professionally executed mission to the President’s order reuniting the boys with their parents.”
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