Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA), says she never stopped campaigning for the rescue of
Chibok girls and other abducted Nigerians throughout her stay in office.
Bala Usman was one of the co-founders of the #BringBackOurGirls
movement which emerged following the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the
Chibok town of Borno state by Boko Haram insurgents in 2014.
She was appointed as the managing director of the Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA) in July 2016 and held the position until her suspension
from the role in 2021.
During the commemoration of the eighth year of the
abduction, the former NPA MD took to her social media page to denounce the
country’s security situation under President Muhammadu Buhari while demanding
the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Bala Usman said she has
remained committed to the quest for the rescue of the Chibok girls even as NPA
MD.
The former NPA chief said she attended several meetings with
Buhari wearing her #BringBackOurGirls badge, adding that she spoke and tweeted
about the security situation in the country while she was a government
appointee.
“If I posted that tweet about the country’s security
situation just a few weeks after the renewal of my appointment as Managing
Director of the NPA in 2021, how then can anyone accuse me of just coming to
speak up now? Or is it just another targeted attack on my person, sponsored by
desperate people who have tried and failed to tarnish my image in the last one
year. Because just a mere check on my Twitter handle would have revealed the
truth, but they decided to proceed with promoting falsehood,” Bala Usman said.
“It is such that my
official picture at the NPA had my BBOG badge. I attended several meetings with
the President wearing my badge. I spoke about the Chibok girls and other
Nigerians in captivity at every opportunity I had, including with other
colleagues in government and during media interviews.”
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