Jonathan inaugurates committee on abducted schoolgirls,….Borno, UN Reps absent
Adetokunbo Fakeye
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday formally inaugurated a presidential committee on the rescue of the abducted Chibok students without giving them a time frame.
While inaugurating the committee led by Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim Sabo, Mr President said that the panel was neither a judicial committee nor an administrative panel.
The committee, he maintained was not a replacement for rescue job being done by security services which would continue to be intensified until the girls were brought home safely.
The president while describing the present security situation of the country as a trying time for the country said, it was time all Nigerians irrespective of tribes and religions came together to confront insecurity.
Repeatedly, President Jonathan reassured delegates to the forthcoming World Economic Forum on Africa of their safety.
Representatives of the Borno State Government and the United Nations were absent at the inauguration.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, told journalists the committee was not given a time frame because the government would be happy to see the body completed its task in a day.