Nigeria launches new investigation of 2014 kidnap of Chibok girls

“Our disappointment was worse recently when Mr. President shocked the parents into a deeper throes of agony when you publicly gave the excuse that “there is no credible information about the girls” whereabouts’ as the reason our Chibok Girls have not been rescued”. Adesina made the comments in an interview with Lagos-based Radio Continental on Friday and shared extracts of the interview on his Facebook page.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu on Thursday stated that the “investigation will seek to, among other things, unravel the remote and immediate circumstances leading the kidnap of the girls by Boko Haram terrorists as well the other events, actions and in actions that followed the incident”.

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with parents of the abducted Chibok girls and members of the Bringbackourgirls movement, reports The Nation. She said the group pledged to continue to beat with the government on the matter in view of the considerable success recorded in decimating Boko Haram.

The emotional parents said they were not pleased that their children have not been rescued even after meeting with President Buhari on June 8, 2015.

“He insisted that they do not have the kind of reliable intelligence that would enable them rescue the girls as immediately as we are demanding”.

There are high emotions, as they mark 600 days since they were taken by Islamist sect, Boko Haram. The parents of our Chibok girls whom you successfully persuaded at our July 8 had following that meeting told our movement that they had implicit trust in the words of Mr. President that ‘everything will be done to rescue our daughters’.

“God knows I have done my best and I will continue to do my best”, President Buhari said.

The President had sent Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba), Minister of Women Affairs, as his representative but Alhassan was said to have lambasted the protesters for not giving the government prior notice of their coming.

The president was accompanied by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Mohammed Dan Ali, Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai and the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd).