- President Buhari vowed to take action against individuals or groups responsible for Dapchi girls attack
- The NSA set up a committee to help rescue the girls
- It charged the members to work critical and justify taxpayers’ money
President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly vowed to take serious action against individuals and organisations that are culpable in the kidnap of 110 girls of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe State.
According to PR Nigeria, the Abu Musa Albarnawi group is suspected to be behind the attack.
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Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) who is the National Security Adviser disclosed this during the inauguration of a 12-man probe panel to investigate what led to the abduction.
Monguno said: “We are using the money of tax payers to carry out this assignment and they are entitled to getting results for whatever this committee does.
“Again, the inclination to push things under the carpet, to be sympathetic to groups or organizations will not be tolerated. You must unravel everything. Where people are culpable, it should come out in your report.”
“We must let the people of Nigeria know that we have taken this incident with all the seriousness it requires and we are going to solve this problem.
“I wouldn’t want a situation whereby you are going to be suppressed by any individual, any group or organisation or agency because we are not going to allow anybody to cover up anything in this matter.
“These are people’s children, our children and we must be seen to be doing the right thing.”
“The abduction of the school girls by the terrorists is a worrisome incident that requires deliberate, urgent and relentless efforts on the part of government.
“There has been conflicting reports from various quarters on the event that led to the adoption, the number of persons abducted, as well as their identity.
“This does not portray the country in good light. There have also been reports, especially in the social media which tends to support some level of inactivity by relevant organisations. “Therefore, there is a need to verify the circumstances surrounding the abduction of these girls from the Government Girls Secondary School.”
“Considering the importance of the issue and the urgency required to promptly address the terms of reference and associated concerns, you are to commence sitting immediately and submit your report to me in two weeks time.
“I, therefore, implore members of the committee to be objective in their findings in order to address this ugly development. I must emphasis here also that there is a lot of cynicism outside in the wider society.
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“This is not the first time such incident has taken place. On the 14th of April, 2014, a lot of girls were abducted from a secondary school in Chibok. A committee was set by the previous administration to look into the circumstances that led to the abduction of those girls.
“What I want to emphasis to you is that this investigation has to be done with all the seriousness it deserves. This is not going to be another exercise in futility.”
Meanwhile, the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, has said unlike the slow response of the Jonathan administration to the kidnap of Chibok girls in April 2014, the current regime responded quickly to the abduction of over 100 girls from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state.
Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Editors’ Plaza by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) in Abuja, on Thursday, March 1, the minister said the government had deployed over 200 hours of air search for the Dapchi girls, The Nation reports.
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Source: Naija.ng
