Jonathan must meet us in our village –Chibok girls' parents

 Relatives of some Chibok school girls adopted three months ago have told Jonthan to either met them in their Chibok village or bring all the 219 mothers of the girls to Aso Rock for the meeting.

According to an AFP report, they considered Tuesday’s the hastily-arranged plan to meet a select few as offensive.

Pakistani education activist, Malala Yousafzai, who survived a 2012 assassination attempt by the Taliban, on her visit to the country earlier in the week, had urged Jonathan to hold face-to-face talks with the parents and relatives of the girls.

A meeting scheduled for Tuesday was called off at the last minute, with the presidency saying the families had been manipulated by opposition parties and BringBackOurGirls activists.

But Chibok community leaders told AFP that if Jonathan truly wants make amends for his disappointing response to the abductions, he should visit the town, or, at the very least, bring all the victims to Nigeria’s capital.

AFP quoted Dauda Iliya, a member of the Chibok panel of elders, as saying: “It is embarrassing that the president had to wait for Malala to come all the way to Nigeria to convince him to meet with us three months after the attack,” said “We deserve a visit by the president,” he added, saying that if Jonathan cannot go to the remote northeastern town for security reasons, he can bring “all the 219 mothers to meet with him. This meeting should not be selective.”

Ayuba Chibok, whose nieces are among the abducted girls said: “For more than three months all we are praying for is for Goodluck to come and see what happened to us and see us crying,”

Jonathan had scheduled visit Chibok in May but the visit was called off abruptly, with the Federal Government later citing security concerns for the cancellation.