Wales recently, award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie
expressed her reservations on the foreign assistance Nigeria is
receiving on the missing chibok school girls. Adichie said the foreign
government should focus on solving their own problems and leave
Nigeria to deal with theirs
"Now we have American drones helping us in this forest and even the
French have sent in people – shouldn't they be fixing their own
economy? We can solve our own damn problems. I'm sure that there are
hunters in that area who know that forest very well. Why haven't they
been used? Why aren't we depending on them? What we need is a better
equipped military, a better trained military. We don't need Americans
to send people in" she said. Continue...
She appreciated the efforts of Michelle Obama and all other
international stars in spreading the word about the missing Chibok
girls, an action she said made the Nigerian government sit up and act.
"It was very much a grassroots social media Nigerian campaign. The
fact that westerners are sharing in something started locally is fine
with me. I recognize that the campaign made a difference. People paid
attention and then the (Nigerian) government had to sit up a little
bit." she added
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