GEJ Abandons Chibok Girls for Election- Time

Time, the influential American news magazine has given President Goodluck Jonathan a 'terrible' early elections gift by accusing him of abandoning the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, the terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria since last year.

According to the magazine, President Jonathan is concentrating his energies on getting re-elected in March and has paid little attention to the rescue of the girls.

It has been nearly one year since Boko Haram militants kidnapped over 270 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria.

And while the terrorist group continues its attacks across Nigeria, the country’s president has been more focused on staying in power after the March 28 elections than on getting the girls back.

Nigerian activists want that to change, demanding that the government make the disappearance of the Chibok girls the top priority.

“These rallies is the reason why [the government] remembers,” organizer Funmi Adesanya told Time’s Africa bureau chief Aryn Baker, “but I don’t think they are really doing anything about it.”