Co-covener of the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, group, Obiageli
Ezekwesili, has continued the exchange of words between her movement and
a group led by President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Hadiza
Buhari-Bello.
She maintained her advise that it shouldn’t use of the BBOG name for fund raising.
We reported that the
Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative, AFRISEI, led by Hadiza
Buhari-Bello, earlier rejected allegations of franchise infringement by
the BBOG.
“The Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative has its own defined
objectives and that it didn’t need to steal anybody’s ideas to operate
in line with its own objectives,” the group said in a statement Friday,
October 21.
It followed BBOG’s
criticism of the use of the group’s inscription at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the Chibok Girls Endowment Project, which took place on Monday in Abuja.
The BBOG demanded an immediate retraction and unreserved apology from
the organisers of the event, and urged the public to disregard attempts
at linking the group to the event.
However, Hadiza said contrary to the allegation, AFRISEI did not need to lean on the BBOG to be of service to the Chibok Girls.
She insisted that her organisation had broader objectives beyond the Chibok girls.
“Given the size of the problem at hand, the more organisations we
have assisting Chibok and other devastated communities, the better for
the country,” her group said.
She said, as a charitable organisation, AFRISEI is committed to
empowering the youth and the less privileged in the area of job creation
and skill acquisition.
“It is also committed to supporting the education of the less
privileged students, giving material support to the downtrodden; the
internally displaced persons.
“AFRISEI is committed to educating the masses to discourage unhealthy
practices such as child trafficking, child abuse, child labour and
gender discrimination.”
But Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, responded on Twitter,
insisting the BBOG should not be mired in request for donations.
“What’s hard to understand? From the outset in 2014, @BBOG_Nigeria
DECIDED that the Movement shall NEVER be mired in DONATIONS. Simple,”
she tweeted.
“WE, @BBOG_Nigeria DON’T RAISE FUNDS. If your organization is RAISING
FUNDS, don’t call it “BBOG STAKEHOLDERS”. ETHICS matter, not so?
“A people that keep blurring the lines between Good and Bad,” she wrote.
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