Kidnapped Girls Must Be Returned – Jonathan Orders Shettima

President Goodluck Jonathan gave the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, a marching order that all the missing GGSS Chibok female students must be found alive. The directive has been announced at the end of a crucial meeting at the Presidential Villa, which started at 9pm on May 3, 2014, Saturday, and ended in the early hours of Sunday.

On the president’s side of the meeting included Vice President Namadi Sambo, Senate President David Mark, Secretary to the Government of the Federation Anyim Pius, security chiefs and some other top presidential aides.

The Governor of Borno State arrived Aso Rock along with his deputy, his Chief of Staff, the state Commissioner for Education, the chairman of the local government, the State Commissioner of Police, the Divisional Police Officer, the principal of the Government Secondary School Chibok and some parents of the abducted girls.

Though precise details of the meeting were not disclosed, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, revealed that the clear instructions from the President to those who attended the meeting were given: “the schoolgirls should be recovered without any further delay”.

At the end of the meeting, the President and his team waited back and met with the Borno governor and his deputy for about 15 minutes. The Borno delegation declined to speak to journalists at the end of the meetings. 

Goodluck Jonathan on May 2, 2014, set up a 'fact-finding Presidential Committee' aimed at finding the abducted female students in Chibok, Borno. However, effectiveness of the committee came under question after a Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana, SAN, had declined the invitation to be a part of it. 

Source: Legit.ng