SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, (THEWILL) – The BringBackOurGirls campaign group (BBOG) has kicked off its Global Week of action in commemoration of the second year anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls.
Activities planned for the week includes a visit to embassies and high commissions of countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Israel and Australia.
“These people had offered to help us find our girls, and so two years after, we need to get feedback, from them,” a spokesperson for the group, Sesugh Akume, said.
The group will also as part of their activities for the week, walk to Aso Rock, although the President is currently out of the country.
On April 14, 2014, the Boko Haram sect kidnapped over 200 girls from Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State; although a few of the girls managed to escape, the state and whereabouts of the remaining girls remains unknown.
Although, the Government has continuously stated that efforts were still ongoing to recover the girls alive, it however has no credible intelligence on their specific location.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in a meeting with the group in January, directed the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, to set up a committee that would carry out a fresh investigation into the abduction of the girls.
Akume added that three months after the President’s directive, nothing had been heard or done.
According to him, not even a covert investigation is going on, as no one has contacted the parents of the girls during this period.
“At the meeting, the parents of the girls said they were not comfortable with the former investigation that was done. So, we hope that this time around the parents and the community will be carried along because some of them had leads, which would have been useful,” Akume said.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan had in the wake of the abduction set up a 26-member fact-finding committee led by Ibrahim Sabo, a retired Brigadier General, to investigate the abduction as well as ascertain the exact number of students missing.
The Sabo-led Committee in its report confirmed the abduction of 276 girls adding that 57 of the girls succeeded to escape from their captors; stating that “as most Nigerians already know, there were some persons who doubted whether in fact any student was abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok.”
Story by David Oputah
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