Nigerian Gov Responds To Kidnapping of Schoolgirls — By Arresting the Woman Who Led Protest Over Gov Lack of Action

Parents demand Nigerian government do something to save school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
Jihadists. (Screen capture from YouTube video)

The protest leader, Naomi Mutah Nyadar, was arrested by police shortly after meeting with the wife of the President of Nigeria.

By Reuters, Felix Ohuah, Tim Cocks, Gareth Jones
Nigerian authorities have arrested a leader of a protest last week in the capital Abuja that called on them to do more to find more than 200 girls abducted by Islamist rebels, a presidency source and another organizer of the protest said on Monday.

Boko Haram insurgents, who want to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, stormed a secondary school in the village of Chibok, northeast Nigeria, on April 14. They carted off the girls in trucks and nothing has been heard of them since.

Screen capture from YouTube video.

The police spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrest, but the presidency source said Naomi Mutah Nyadar had been detained for allegedly and falsely claiming to be the mother of one of the missing girls.

Nyadar was picked up late on Sunday after a meeting she and other campaigners had held with President Goodluck Jonathan's wife, Patience, concerning the girls.

She was taken to Asokoro police station, near the presidential villa, said fellow protester Lawan Abana, whose two nieces are among the abductees.

"Ms Naomi was arrested yesterday evening," he told Reuters by telephone. "We are begging them to save our daughters. Instead of taking steps to rescue them they are jailing us."

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