Chibok Girls: Service Chiefs Accused of Ignoring Chibok Girls

Due to the silence and negligence of service chiefs over the abducted Chibok Girls,the Senate has an invitation turned down by these serving chiefs,to discus Chibok Girls.
The Service Chiefs of the Nigerian Armed
Forces and the National Security Adviser
(NSA) yesterday shunned the
Nigerian
Senate’s invitation to discuss the ongoing
anti-Boko Haram campaign and attempts to
rescue the abducted Chibok girls.
According to Leadership, no explanation was
given for their absence, and only the
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon
Arase and the Director-General of the
Department of State Security (DSS) Lawal
Daura were in attendance.
The Nigerian service chiefs have been
accused of ignoring the Chibok girls
The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike
Ekweremadu who presided over the closed
session, said the Senate was briefed by the
head of the DSS and the IGP on the efforts
at rescuing the abducted Chibok girls for the
past two years.
“The senate was briefed by the Director-
General, State Security Service and the
Inspector General of Police on the abduction
of the Chibok school girls and efforts to
rescue them in the last two years,”
Ekweremadu said.
“We urged them to continue and should leave
no stone unturned to achieve to rescue the
Chibok girls. Thereafter they answered
questions bothering under topical national
security issues from very distinguished
senators.”
IGP Arase, seen her with President Buhari,
was one of the few senior security officials
to attend the meeting
It would be recalled that the Senate on
Thursday last week summoned the service
chiefs to appear before it in a closed door
session to explain how the Nigerian military
and security forces are handling the anti-
terror campaign.
It is currently unknown whether the service
chiefs will be issued another invitation or if
they will be compelled to attend.
The 276 Chibok girls were abducted from
their school in Borno state just over two
years ago.
Though several of the girls were later freed,
219 remain in the captivity of Boko Haram.