According to Reuters, President Goodluck
Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to Chibok, the
village from which more than 200 schoolgirls were
abducted by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram a
month ago due to security fears, senior
government sources said on Friday.
Jonathan will instead fly directly from the capital
Abuja to Paris on Friday for a regional summit to
discuss the Boko Haram insurgency and wider
insecurity and will not now make a stop in the
northeastern village of Chibok, said one of the
sources.
“The president was planning to go but security
advised otherwise on the visit,” said the source of
the last-minute decision to cancel the Chibok part
of the trip.
Jonathan asked France last week to arrange a
security summit with neighbors Chad, Cameroon,
Niger and Benin, and officials from the United
States, Britain and the European Union to discuss
a coordinated response. The summit will take
place on Saturday.
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