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NATIONAL: Refund monies collected to discredit your fatherland — Garba Shehu taunts #BringBackOurBoys’ campaigners

SENIOR Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garbage Shehu, has berated those trying to exploit the abduction of over 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, for cheap fame and fortune.

Shehu, who described this group of people as “merchants of fortune”, said those who trooped out to protest the release of the abducted boys lacked patriotism.

He noted that the promoters of #BringBackOurBoys were largely sponsored to convene the movement, adding that since their supposed enterprise had been scuttled they should refund the monies collected.

Shehu said this in a piece titled, ‘Five Takeaways From The Safe Return Of 344 Kankara Schoolboys’ published yesterday.

The president’s adviser also took a swipe at those who described the whole abduction and rescue of the schoolboys as a charade by saying they are ” mischievous.”

According to the presidential aide by the release of the Kankara schoolboys, the Buhari regime demonstrated “unquestionable capacity to protect Nigerians.”

He wrote, “There will always be profiteers from other people’s misfortune. The lack of patriotism shown by few unnecessary elements in a moment of national distress was crass, shameful and despicable. If they are not directly affected by a tragedy or no immediate family member involved, it is fair game for them and time to gloat or even make a few fast bucks. Indeed emergency activists thought they could cash in on these schoolboys and their parents’ misfortune devoid of their conscience.

“While patriotic Nigerians prayed for the boys’ quick return, these merchants of fortune were renting crowds, creating certain suspicious hashtags, opening bank accounts for the sole aim of soliciting funds for a cause they thought would linger.

“What will they do now with the one million T-Shirts they have produced? This is hugely shameful. These scavengers should now be honourable enough to refund the monies they have so far collected for the now futile campaign to discredit their fatherland.”

Recall that Garba Shehu was compelled to publicly apologise last week for claiming that only 10 and not over 300 students were abducted December 11 by the bandits. Few weeks back, he had also drawn wide opprobrium for claiming that 76 farmers slaughtered by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on November 28 did not seek permission from the military before going to their rice fields near the village of Zabarmari, Borno State, where they were killed.

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