We Received Only N22.4m From Presidency, Not 100m- Chibok Community

The Leadership of Kibaku Area Development Association (Chibok community), on Wednesday, explained that the President gave N22.4 million to the Chibok parents and the escaped girls that held a meeting with him on Tuesday last week and not 100m as claimed.

In a press statement signed by its spokesman, Dauda Ilya, in Abuja, said 63 individuals comprising 51 escaped girls were given N100, 000 each, 51 parents equally received N100, 000 each and another 61 parents got N200, 000 each.

The community stated that 10 parents out of the 122 that took part in the meeting with Jonathan did not receive any money.

It said: “On the night of July 22, 2014, at about midnight, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Special Duties, who had been co-ordinating the visit on the side of the Presidency, visited the hotel and told the 51 escaped girls who came that the Presidency sent them a token of N100, 000 each.

According to the statement, “The SSA accordingly gave them the said sum without prior discussion with any KADA official or any other person in the community.

“He equally gave the sum of N200, 000 each to 61 parents out of the 122 parents that came on the visit. Fifty-one parents were given N100, 000 each on the basis that the money given to him was not enough to go round at N200, 000. The remaining 10 parents were not given any amount of money.