Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Bilateral Relations and the Activities of Boko Haram: Ambassador of Nigeria
2:30 pm
H.E. Dr. Bolere Elizabeth Ketebu:
No. I did not refer to the Chibokan girls as displaced persons. The displaced persons are the almost 2 million Nigerians who have now been displaced because of Boko Haram activities. When the Chibokan girls were kidnapped there was no regional collaboration as there is now. At that time Boko Haram could enter Nigeria and escape. I referred to that in my earlier narrative. They would escape to Cameroon, Chad or Niger. That was what they did at that time and they distributed the girls. Even the Nigerian national security adviser referred to that in his presentation in London. At that time there was no regional collaboration or co-operation as there is now, when Chad could come into Nigeria and Nigeria could go to Chad, Niger or Cameroon.
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