A black American billionaire, Mr Robert Smith, has offered to sponsor the education of the 21 Chibok girls recently released by the Boko Haram sect.
This was disclosed yesterday by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
Speaking on the welfare of the recently released 21 Chibok girls, Malam Shehu said the girls are being treated as adopted children of the federal government but revealed that there is a lot of local and international interest in the future of the girls.
“A black American billionaire, Mr Robert Smith, who is currently sponsoring the education of 24 girls from Chibok, among them the first set of escapees from Boko Haram at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, has offered to pay for the education of the 21 released girls through negotiations and is offering to take responsibility for all the others who will hopefully be eventually set free.
“The Murtala Mohammed Foundation in the country is equally interested,” said the presidential spokesman.
Responding to complaints by some of the parents of the 21 Chibok girls that they did not have enough room for interaction with their daughters brought home for Christmas by the Department of State Services (DSS), the presidential aide admitted that there were some hitches arising from a lack of understanding of the objective of the trip on the part of some security operatives but noted that following the receipt of this complaint, a directive was given from the headquarters for parents to have access to their children.
