President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that his silence should not be mistaken for weakness or non-response to terrorism, Boko Haram and the Chibok girls.
His response from today's edition of Washington Post:
"I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria's military, police and investigators to find the girls," he writes. "I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness".
Mr Jonathan affirms that the Nigerian government and security services will continue to search for the women until they are found and their perpetrators are punished.
"Since 2010, thousands of people have been killed, injured, abducted or forced by Boko Haram, which seeks to overwhelm the country and impose its ideology on all Nigerians," he writes. "My government is determined to make that impossible. We will not succumb to the will of terrorists".
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