Monday, 26 May 2014

Abducted girls’ parents carpet presidential panel for shunning Chibok

Residents of Chibok, including traumatised parents of over 200 schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State on April 14 have described the shunning of Chibok town by the Presidential Fact-Finding Committee on the abduction as the "highest height of irresponsibility" and an insult to their sensibility as human and citizens of Nigerians.
The community said it was a pity that they were first insulted by the President Goodluck Jonathan even after a belated plan to visit was shelved while a committee, which was set up to ascertain the number of girls that were kidnapped from the school, found an excuse to equally shun Chibok.

The parents, who expressed their displeasure over what they called the refusal of the committee to visit Chibok, told journalists on Monday in Maiduguri that the committee's work was incomplete without seeing the scene of the April 14 attack and interacting with them.

"They told us they were coming on Tuesday and we were waiting for them. All the parents of the (abducted) girls with other community leaders gathered in front of the school (GGSS) waiting for them but they refused to show up. We thought they've postponed the visit and interaction with us till Wednesday and we waited again but they didn't come," Maina Chibok, one of the parents said on the telephone.

He expressed concern over the treatment of the abduction issue, describing it was regrettable.

Chibok said, "We learnt they met elders of Borno Emirate and other people in Maiduguri, but what do these people know about our case? Why is government afraid to come to Chibok? What kind of thing is the committee finding in Maiduguri and not in our town where our daughters were kidnapped?"

Lucas Adams, a resident said the committee should have spent more time in Chibok if it was determined to unravel the causes of the abduction, saying "the committee should have access to security personnel to provide security if members were scared of the area."

Chairman of the committee, Maj.-Gen Ibrahim Sabo, had on Friday, at the Maiduguri Government House Council Chamber, said the committee was rounding off its interaction with stakeholders on the Chibok abduction by meeting the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima.

He said the committee had interacted with military officers and heads of security agencies in the state, Borno elders, principal of the GGSS and management members of the school among others.
Meanwhile, a press statement by the spokesman for the committee, Kingsley Osadolor, and emailed to journalists in Maiduguri said the committee returned to Abuja on

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