How to rescue missing Chibok schoolgirls– Presidential Committee

A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of
Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram
obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing the full-length
hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location.
Boko Haram released a new video on claiming to show
the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging they had
converted to Islam and would not be released until all
militant prisoners were freed. A total of 276 girls were
abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of
Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian
community. Some 223 are still missing. AFP PHOTO /
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The Presidential Fact-Finding
Committee on the Abducted Female
Students of Government Secondary
School, Chibok, has asked the federal
government to take advantage of
foreign support, backed with hi-tech
equipment, to locate the abducted girls
and rescue them.
It also called for the beefing up of arms
and ammunition of the military as well
as the strengthening of security
agencies in the theatre of operation.
The committee made the
recommendations in its 50-page report
submitted to the government and
which was obtained exclusively by
PREMIUM TIMES.
The 27-member panel chaired by
Ibrahim Sabo, a retired brigadier
general, was inaugurated by former
President Goodluck Jonathan on May 6,
2014, to, among other things find out
the circumstances leading to the
abduction of the 276 female students of
the Government Secondary School,
Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014
by Boko Haram terrorists.

The establishment of the committee
followed claims and counterclaims
about the circumstances and the actual
number of students abducted by the
terrorists.
The panel submitted its report to then
President Jonathan, but its details have
never been made public.

In the report, the Committee, which sat
for five weeks, said altogether 276
students out of the 395 female students
that registered for the WAEC
examination were abducted by the
terrorists.
It further stated that while 57 of the
students escaped from the insurgents
after the abduction, the remaining 219
were unaccounted for.