Ex-Minister Ezekwesili Condemns FG Over #BringBackOurGirls Campaign

A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has condemned the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s attempt to damage the image of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign through a foreign Public Relations firm, Levick.
Ms. Ezekwesili, the coordinator of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, made this statement on Thursday, 17 July, 2014, via her Twitter handle, @obyezeks, stating that it was hateful for the presidency to hire a PR firm to help government tag Nigerian citizens as terrorists.
“It’s to SUCH HATE? That our Presidency deployed our public resources to hire US firm @LEVICK to label INNOCENT CITIZENS “terrorists”??” she tweeted.

* Mrs Oby Ezekwesili
The #BringBackOurGirls campaign came into existence after over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorists inside the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria on 14 April, 2014.
The former minister revealed that she never believed that the Nigerian government could hire a PR firm to spread lies that the #BringBackOurGirls group was a franchise until the spokesperson for the State Security Services, Marilyn Ogar, confirmed it.
It would be recalled that the Nigerian federal government reportedly paid the PR firm owned by Richard Levick $1.2 million (N195 million) to help manage what many consider government’s inept handling of the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist group.