‘I was not impersonated by Mutah’ – Chibok Elder

A Chibok elder, Kibaku (Chibok) Area Development Association (KADA), in Borno state, Mrs. Grace Allabeh Ndirmbula, has said that she was never impersonated by Naomi Nyadar at a meeting in the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

There were reports on Monday, that Nyadar, an organiser of the ‘#BringBackOurGirls’ demonstration in Abuja, was arrested after a meeting at the Presidential Villa with Dame Patience Jonathan for allegedly impersonating a leader of KADA Women Wing of Chibok, Mrs. Grace Allabeh Ndirmbula.

In a statement made available to journalists yesterday, Mrs. Ndirmbula said Mrs. Naomi Mutah Nyadar and Mrs. Saratu Angus Ndirpaya were nominated by her to attend the meeting as she could not possibly be present due to her distant domicile.

She said Naomi Mutah Nyadar did not and had no reason to impersonate her as she is a respected elder of KADA women’s wing of Chibok (Kibaku) Community in Abuja.

Ndirmbula also faulted a statement credited to the First Lady that no child was missing in Borno state, stressing that it was sad that the highest level meeting of Nigerian women stakeholders could deny the reality of the abduction of 276 girls from G.G.S.S, Chibok.

The statement reads in part, “On Sunday, 4th of May, 2014 at about 6am, I, Mrs. Grace Allabeh Ndirmbula received a call from Kwapchi Bata, the senior special assistant to the executive governor of Borno on media, requesting for a nomination of a worthy representative of Chibok (Kibaku) women in Abuja to attend an urgent meeting convened by the wife of the president at Aso Villa.

“The meeting was to be held as from 12 noon that same day. The woman representative of the Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) was to join the Borno women contingent that was already in Abuja.

“Due to the suspension of flights from Maiduguri to Abuja and the long distance and hours it takes to travel to Abuja by road, it was impossible for me, being resident in Maiduguri to reach Abuja and attend the meeting as scheduled”.