Dame Patience Sets Up Committee To Investigate Chibok Abduction
Adetokunbo Fakeye
First lady Dame Patience Jonathan according to Channels TV report has set up a committee to investigate the abduction of over 200 girls in Cbibok in Borno State.
The committee as reported was set-up at a meeting the first lady held with wives of governors, female legislators, and leaders of the various women groups in the country, organised to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of girls in Chibok.
The six member committee to be chaired by the wife of Borno state governor, is to follow up the revelations made at the meeting by the Borno state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajia Inna Galadima, who stood in for the wife of the governor, Nana Shettima.
The commissioner at the meeting had told the gathering that 53 girls are currently in custody of the state government.
Also at the meeting, First Lady was told by the head of the West African Examination Council, Mr Charles Eguridu that the Borno state government rejected the request by WAEC to relocate the over 530 students that wrote the examination to a well secure center where adequate security was guaranteed.
He said contrary to widespread belief, Chibok Government Secondary School is a mixed school which necessitated the registration of 135 male students out of the 350 registered for the examination. After the incident, 189 students were relocated to the Uba examination center where they continued with the examination.
The head of WAEC, Charles Eguruidu, also disclosed details about the number of girls that wrote the examination before the abduction, and presented the pictures and the registration details.
First lady told the meeting and the committee to follow up on the revealations gathered as she expressed her determination to get to the root of the matter.
