•Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity in May 2014
The #BringBackOurGirls movement has called on the federal government to release findings of the 2014 Brigadier General Mohammed Sabo-led Fact-Finding Committee on the Chibok girls abduction.
In a statement yesterday signed by its spokesperson, Jeff Okoroafor, the group criticised past and present administrations for withholding the report, despite filing Freedom of Information requests on its release.
The committee’s report, submitted on June 20, 2014, confirmed the abduction, noting that while 57 girls escaped, 219 remained missing at the time, reports The Guardian.
More than a decade later, BBOG reports that 141 of the originally missing girls have regained their freedom, with many resuming their education.
However, 78 girls remain unaccounted for, raising concerns that some may have been assimilated into terrorist enclaves.
The statement partly read: “The President Bola Tinubu administration has a duty to provide an account of the status of the rescue of the remaining Chibok girls to their families and Nigerians. We reiterate the importance of bringing closure for the families of the remaining 78 missing schoolchildren. “Critically, the Tinubu administration, like its predecessors, has failed to release the Sabo Fact-Finding Committee Report, despite our movement’s request, including through an FoI process.”
The group recalled that on the night of April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted by terrorists from Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State.
Following global outrage and mounting pressure, then-President Goodluck Jonathan set up the Sabo Committee on May 6, 2014, to investigate the incident.
