{"id":26466,"date":"2014-05-11T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2014-05-11T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:52:33","slug":"missing-girls-dont-blame-the-nigerian-govt-says-oronto-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/missing-girls-dont-blame-the-nigerian-govt-says-oronto-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing girls: Don\u2019t blame the Nigerian govt, says Oronto Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  10px; line-height: 15.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Barrister Oronto Douglas, has said that the blame for the missing girls should not be heaped on the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  10px; line-height: 15.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Douglas, in an interview published in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post, said that the government was being careful in ensuring that the girls were safe while the process of securing their freedom was intensified.<\/p>\n<p><center style=\"overflow: hidden; width: 675.71875px; height: 0px; margin: auto;\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  10px; line-height: 15.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">In the interview, Douglas insisted that it was \u00a0\u201cnot helpful\u201d to heap blame \u00a0for the missing girls \u00a0upon the government in Abuja, adding that the abductors were vicious and dangerous who could harm the girls if the situation was not well handled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  10px; line-height: 15.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">\u201cThe Nigerian government is doing all it can in collaboration with its allies to ensure that our daughters, the girls, are brought back home,\u201d said \u00a0Douglas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  10px; line-height: 15.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">He said: \u201cThis is not about politics, it is about the protection of human lives&#8230;The challenge to locate the missing schoolgirls and free them from captivity is a complex one. 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