Obasanjo: Chibok girls will never return intact

The 219 Chibok school girls in Boko Haram detention since April 14 will never return intact, Olusegun Obasanjo, former Nigeria president, has said.

Speaking in an interview Radio France International, Obasanjo said that it would take years to rescue the girls, owing to the failure of the government to take action within 48 hours of the abduction.

The former president added that anyone who thought the Chibok girls would be rescued without scratches was daydreaming.

“We will never be able to get those girls together again. And the stories of those girls will go on for the next 30 years. Some of them will come out when they are adults or sent back when they are impregnated by their captors,” he said.

“If anybody is thinking of getting those girls intact, he must be daydreaming.”

Speaking about Kashamu Buruji, Obasanjo, insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain was a wanted drug baron, while expressing shame that  PDP and the presidency were “hobnobbing” with him.

“He is somebody who has been indicted in the United States as a drug baron, and for a political party and the presidency to be hobnobbing with him leaves much to be desired,” he said.

Kashamu had gone to court to stop the publication of Obasanjo’s memoirs, ‘My Watch’.

The court gave an interim order stopping the publication of the memoirs, but the former president went ahead to publish the book, forcing the court  to order its confiscation.