I no longer sleep with my two eyes closed' -

'President Jonathan
President Jonathan today revealed that since the abduction of
the Chibok girls on April 14th, he does not sleep with his two
eyes closed anymore. The president made this remark during
the closing media conference of the just concluded World
Economic Forum Africa today. What he said below...
"Let me also use this unique opportunity to thank all of
you who have shown commitment and concern those of
you in Nigeria and those of you outside this country to
continue to press on that these terrorists must bring back
our girls. And they have no choice because I am quite
pleased that the whole world is signing the same message
that they must bring back our girls. And there is no where
they will take this girls to, they have no hiding place, we
must work with the global community that is quite keen to
make sure that we bring back this girls. We plead with
the parents as a father and the President of this country, I
feel pained and I don’t sleep with my two eyes closed and
I will not sleep with my two eyes closed until these girls
are brought safely back to their parents. I thank you for
all the concern, for all the sentiments, communications
you are putting across to the rest of the world about what
we are doing and of course where the world wants to
support us.” he said.
Meanwhile an Amnesty International report released today,
May 9th, states that the Nigerian military was notified of the
Boko Haram attack four hours before they arrived the
Government Girls Secondary School where they abducted the
young girls.
According to Makmid Kamara, the Nigeria researcher for
Amnesty International, indigenes of Chibok community who
spoke with Amnesty officials on the condition of anonymity
said they had informed military personnel in the area around
7pm that evening of a pending attack by Boko Haram but no
one mobilized for military backup until the Boko Haram men
came calling at 11.45pm
"We received information and we spoke to a senior
Nigerian military officer, who spoke to us on condition of
anonymity, that they had received intelligence reports,
even before local authorities and politicians got the
information, that gunmen were on their way to the Chibok
town"
"When I spoke to one of the senior military officials, they
informed me that they [had] informed their superiors, and
requested for reinforcement. But the reinforcement did
not come." By the time the Boko Haram men came, only
17 soldiers were on ground and they could not withstand
the emissaries the Islamic sect men came with.
"Only 17 troops were there to face the attack and they
were outgunned and outnumbered. They had to flee for
their lives together with some other villagers who fled to
the bush," Kamara said.