ICC Note: Even Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari finds his meetings with the Chibok parents emotionally difficult. That’s what he told CNN in an interview with anchor Christiane Amanpour. Buhari told CNN that he should limit his meetings with the advocacy group #BringBackOurGirls and the parents of more than 200 girls still missing after militant Islamists Boko Haram abducted them more than two years ago. Buhari empathizes with the parents and says he can’t imagine the pain they feel continually. 

5/14/16 Nigeria (AllAfrica) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said meeting parents of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on a regular basis is not good for his emotional state.

Lamenting the plight of the parents in an interview with Christine Amanpour, a CNN anchor, Buhari said he could not imagine his own daughter in such situation.

“I saw the families as a group twice. The first time, they came to visit my wife. The second, time, they came as a group to see me, and the less I see them the better for my own emotional balance,” he said.

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