Buhari ORDERS investigation into kidnap of CHIBOK girls

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into the theft of the 219 girls from government secondary in Chibok, Borno state in April 2014.

The investigation would seek to, among other things, unravel the remote and immediate circumstances leading to the kidnap of the girls by Boko Haram terrorists as well as the other  events, actions and inaction that followed the incident.

This plan was revealed on Thursday when president Buhari met with some of the parents of the Chibok girls behind closed doors.

The president assured the parents that he remained fully committed to his pledge to do all within his powers to save the girls.

The president was accompanied by the minister of defense, Mansur Mohammed Dan Ali, minister of women affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, chief of defense staff, gen Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of army staff, lt.-gen Tukur Buratai and the national security adviser, Maj.-gen Babagana Monguno (rtd).

In his remarks, the chief of defence staff told the meeting that in the last three months the military has liberated more than 3,000 people kidnapped by Boko Haram in the north eastern part of the country.

The BBOG group, alongside at least 115 parents of the abducted girls, took to the streets of the federal capital territory on Thursday requesting that concerted efforts be made in the liberation of the girls.

One of the conveners of the BBOG, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, asked the federal government to do what it can to ensure that the girls were rescued.

According to her, “this particular administration must be seen to exhaust every measure possible,” urging president Buhari to convince the parents of the missing girls that a ‘fierce urgency’ would be the basis of all measures to rescue the girls.