In an interview with Yahoo News, the minister described the abduction of the schoolgirls as frustrating, adding that the federal government would do all within its power to rescue them.
A copy of the transcribed version of the interview was made available to our correspondent on Wednesday, in Abuja.
She said, “A friend of mine tweeted me holding #BringBackOurGirls. We need to move beyond that into more action that is what the world is asking for.
“I think we should focus on what Nigerians are asking for. We are deeply frustrated, all of us are. We have to move beyond that to not let the work of the terrorists paralyse us. What I want to say to the world is don’t let the work of the terrorists create division. Criticize, but do not let it create division.
“This is a time that we need to come together as a world community to stand with Nigerians and Nigerians to stand together not apart in order to fight.
“This is what the terrorists want, they want criticism, they want names to be called, they want frustration, they want people to be divided and then they will win.
“If we stand together as a world community and focus on the girls and bringing them back and we show the terrorists that terror will not win and then they will fail.”
The minister said rather than allow terrorists to destroy the economy, the federal government would attack the problem using a multidimensional approach.
She said, “We are going to stop the extremists with a multi-prong approach. It is not a simple thing; there is the military angle, the insurgency angle, the political angle that has to be pursued and also there is the development angle where we have to give our young people hope and make sure that their school is not interfered with, that they feel more secure.
“All these things have to be done. But it is not easy fighting these acts of terrorism, if it was easy you will not find them cropping up all over the world.”
Source: Punch
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