President Goodluck Jonathan has constituted a committee to ensure that the schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State are rescued and reunited with their parent as soon as possible.
According to a statement issued by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pious Anyim, on Friday, the committee would be saddled with fact finding task such as finding why the students were in school while their colleagues were on holiday, the identities and actual number of the abducted girls and how many of the girls have returned.
The committee will devise strategy to engage the community in the rescue process, while also liaising with security operatives, stakeholders and Borno State Government on ways to carry out the rescue promptly.
The committee will then advice the presidency, based on its findings, the best strategy to employ in saving the girls quickly.
Members of the committee are:
(i) Brig. General Ibrahim A. Sabo (Rtd.) – Chairman
(ii) Barrister Femi Falana, SAN – Member
(iii) Hajia Hawa Ibrahim – Member
(iv) Hajia Fatima Kwaku – Member
(v) 2 representatives of National Council of Women
Societies (NCWS) – Member
(vi) 2 representatives of the All one whom shall be a female
Nigeria Conference of
Principals of Secondary
Schools (ANCOPSS) – Member
(vii) 2 representatives of the National “ – Member
Parents Teachers Association
(viii) 2 representatives of the Nigeria Police “ – Member
(ix) 2 representatives of the State Security
Service “ – Member
(x) 2 representatives of the Nigerian Army “ – Member
(xi) 2 representatives of the Nigeria Union
of Journalists (NUJ) “ – Member
(xii) 1 Representative of the Federal Ministry of
Information (who shall be the Committees’
Spokesperson) – Member
(xiii) 1 Representative of the Federal Ministry of Justice – Member
(xiv) 3 Representatives of Borno State Government
(two of whom, preferably, shall be women) – Member
(xv) 1 Representative of the United Nations – Member
(xvi) 1 Representative of ECOWAS (who shall be a woman) – Member
(xvii) Permanent Secretary (Special Services Office) OSGF – Secretary
According to Anyim, the committee will be inaugurated at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday, 6th May by 12 noon.
