Verbal war: Ezekwesili fires back at Buhari’s daughter – BBOG not for fundraising.

The back and forth verbal war between Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, founder of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) and Hajia Hadiza Buhari-Bello, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, appears not to be relenting.

Ezekwesili, had made it a point to the founder of The Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative (AFRISEI) that she was not permitted to use the name of the BBOG for any purpose whatsoever without the express permission of its founders, as it would amount to infringement on franchise, a position Buhari-Bello rejected in a statement on Friday, saying AFRISEI, did not need BBOG’s permission to assist the less-privileged.

Maintaining that matters of philanthropy should not be bugged down by mundane constraints, she had riposted: “The Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative has its own defined objectives and that it didn’t need to steal anybody’s ideas to operate in line with its own objectives…

“Given the size of the problem at hand, the more organisations we have assisting Chibok and other devastated communities, the better for the country.

“AFRISEI is committed to educating the masses to discourage unhealthy practices such as child trafficking, child abuse, child labour and gender discrimination.”

 “It is also committed to supporting the education of the less privileged students, giving material support to the downtrodden; the internally displaced persons.”

But Ezekwesili, in response, wondered what was so difficult to understand in her position, took to her Twitter account to respond, saying: “What’s hard to understand? From the outset in 2014, @BBOG_Nigeria DECIDED that the Movement shall NEVER be mired in DONATIONS. Simple.

“WE, @BBOG_Nigeria DON’T RAISE FUNDS. If your organization is RAISING FUNDS, don’t call it “BBOG STAKEHOLDERS”. ETHICS matter, not so?

“A people that keep blurring the lines between Good and Bad.”