• As group bemoans FG’s
attitude to Kaduna killings
By Chuks Okocha and John
Shiklam
Two Presidency officials and
some security experts at the
weekend described the
report of the presidential
committee on the abduction
of some schoolgirls from
Chibok, in Borno State, as
fundamentally flawed.
The presidential fact finding
committee headed by
Brigadier General Ibrahim
Sabo (rtd) had been set up
on May 2 by the federal
government to investigate
the circumstances
surrounding the April 14
kidnapping of nearly 300
girls from Government
Secondary School, Chibok,
by the Islamic terrorist sect,
Boko Haram. The committee
submitted its report to the
president, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan, on June 20, with
Sabo confirming that 276
girls were abducted by the
sect, while 57 escaped and
219 were still missing.
But officials of the
presidency and security
experts who spoke with
THISDAY at the weekend on
condition of anonymity
described the 45-page report
of the committee as lacking
in analytical reasoning and
depth required of an inquest
of such nature.
This was as ethnic
nationalities in the southern
part of Kaduna State
yesterday expressed their
displeasure at the federal
government’s lacklustre
attitude to the repeated
bloody attacks on their
communities by Fulani
herdsmen. Their annoyance
followed fresh attacks by the
marauding Fulani on
villages in Sanga Local
Government Area of Kaduna
State on Friday in which 40
people were killed.
“We have seen the vice
president and the president
rush to the scene of a bomb
blast which killed 22 people
in Abuja on Wednesday.
But they have not issued
even a statement
concerning the 142 people
that were killed in Bondong,
Kaura Local Government
Area of Kaduna State,”
Southern Kaduna Peoples
Union stated in a release.
One of the experts who
spoke on the Chibok
committee report, a retired
deputy director in the State
Security Service, said whilst
the committee explained
that Government Secondary
School, Chibok, was initially
closed for security reasons,
but was re-opened for the
WAEC examinations
because, it was located in
“areas least affected by the
activities of the insurgents,”
the committee, however,
“failed to ask what is
perhaps the most relevant
question here, which is,
what security arrangements
did the Borno State
government put in place to
secure the school and its
students.”
He said, “It is worrisome
that the committee did not
bother to address this in its
evaluation of events leading
to the invasion of the Chibok
school by Boko Haram
insurgents, especially when
it earlier noted in its report
that ‘The state government
made adequate
arrangements for security
of examination materials
and staff of WAEC,
especially, in view of the
undertaking given to the
Federal Ministry of
Education by the Borno
State government that
adequate security would be
provided.”
Both the Presidency officials
and the security experts
believed the blame for the
security lapse that preceded
the seizure of the girls
should have been laid firmly
at the Borno State
government’s door by the
committee, instead of
virtually adopting the
position of the state
government on the issue.
Another area that the
analysts faulted was the
committee’s conclusion on
the number of girls
abducted on the night of
April 14, when the
insurgents attacked the
School. They wondered how
the committee ascertained
that all 395 girls of the
school were in the hostel on
the night of the attack since
WAEC had confirmed that
there were candidates who
had not shown up for any of
the exams held before the
attack.
“Who verified that 395 girls
slept in the hostel?” the
security expert asked,
explaining that there were
no wardens, principal, or
staff in the school on the
night of the attack.
He accused the committee of
being engrossed in an
arithmetic meant to arrive
at a predetermined figure of
276 rather than doing a
thorough work to ascertain
the actual number of those
kidnapped.
Another expert, who said he
had looked through some of
the findings of the
committee, raised yet
another poser. If, indeed,
the students were made to
believe that the insurgents,
who disguised in military
uniforms, were there to take
them into safe custody, what
motivated the 119 girls to
escape while some 276
followed, since there was no
apparent violence,
according to eye witness
accounts?
A presidency official added,
“The committee also failed
woefully to remove the
cloud on how the insurgents
evacuated such a huge
number of girls at such an
hour of the day. How many
vehicles were
commandeered and used?
At what stage was the school
burnt down? These are
issues that ought to be
addressed to give credibility
to the report.”
The experts also faulted the
committee for its failure to
visit chibok and hold
thorough dialogue with the
local community. “It was
inconceivable that a
committee, which had such
a wide terms of reference,
only sent two of its
members to Chibok and
those two only spent 30
minutes in the locus,” one of
the security analysts said.
He added, “This is a very
major defect in its
assignment and it raises lots
of questions on the report
eventually turned in.
Whoever prevented the
committee from having
direct interaction with
leaders of the Chibok
community has done a great
disservice to the nation. The
committee’s report has,
therefore, raised more
questions and provided less
answers. It has presented
government with
misleading information and
figures that are apparently
unreliable.”
But at the weekend, the
people of southern Kaduna
State accused the federal
government of showing no
concern to their plight after
raids by suspected Fulani
herdsmen that have killed
more than 200 people in
Sanga Local Government
Area in the last one week.
“Yet the southern part of
Kaduna State is the
stronghold of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party,”
the people lamented in
statement by their umbrella
body. “This is an area that
gives the PDP 100 percent
support to bring them to
power. We don’t know what
we have done to this
government to deserve this
type of negligence when our
people are being
slaughtered like animals.”
SOKAPU said, “We are
disappointed with the
attitude of the federal
government towards the
massive killings that are
going on in the southern
part of Kaduna.”
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidency-experts-fault-presidential-committee-report-on-chibok-abduction/182172/

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*seems everyone is in church*

Standing Committee.......
All my pity goes to the innocent girls
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Just hope they will cum bk alive...

ok ooO!! Let them keep faulting any report that proved that the event actually happened, after all the report is from the presidential commitee not opposition nor anti government group.

I only read halfway before I lost interest. @OP, you should have at least made the post more attractive. Thanks anyway.

Killing human beings like flies in my dear country. What happen to this Northerners? is this kind of curse or what? I don't have to comments on the issue ahead, my mind just fly to the number of people being killed on a daily basis by this Northerners. God help us from this curse nation. After watching all this in the news, you expect the world to allow you to inter Stadium with your drones.

Smh

Guy nigeria need restructuring.....tied of this comaint and bombing,,,didn't care to cus it's all d same jst glad am first on page

It's good to be back after the "Tsunami".

This is pure rubbish.

Boko Haram of Nigeria.
- Al-Qaeda of Arabia.
- Al-shabab of Somalia.
- Talliban of Afganistan.
- Hisbullah of Iran.
- Islamic State of Iraq and levathon(ISIL).
- Islamic state of Uzbenkistan.(ISU)
- Muslim brother-hood of Egypt.
- Islamic Rebels of Syria......
- Pakistani sucide bombers
- Sunni fighters vs Shia Iraqi millitants..... Na waoh! Na wetin be these people problem?

The blame game continues while the girls are in their 3rd month in captivity, and they tell me there is a government in Nigeria.

who don watch 'the missing school girls'

You set up a committee to do some findings about the abducted Chibok girls. The committee comes with their findings and you foolishly fault their findings without any reason?

Mr. President,you are not serious!!

Its quiet unfortune that these animals called fulani people forment truobles every time , its high time u southern Kaduna people stop running and defend ur land , people and religion . I dont support violets but these muslium fools its too much for them . Stand up like DAVID in the HOLY BIBLE pray to GOD and fight those fools i bet u with our prays for u victory will be YOURS. GOD BLESS CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE.

Na wa Oooo

Now! I don't give a Damn About Nigeria!
Seriously I Give Up!
Let's keep blaming and Killing Each other!!

There's absolutely No Hope until after the elections.
Until then, I give Up!!

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Remove the “dash”..

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seunfly: ok ooO!! Let them keep faulting any report that proved that the event actually happened, after all the report is from the presidential commitee not opposition nor anti government group.

Are you saying that the observations raised here make no sense to you

gamesb: Its quiet unfortune that these animals called fulani people forment truobles every time , its high time u southern Kaduna people stop running and defend ur land , people and religion . I dont support violets but these muslium fools its too much for them . Stand up like DAVID in the HOLY BIBLE pray to GOD and fight those fools i bet u with our prays for u victory will be YOURS. GOD BLESS CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE.

God bless Muslims too, those bastards ain't Muslims, they are monsters. Demons in human skin.

Without being biased, if you reason out all the stories concerning the Chibok incident, It wont be abnormal to say that no girls were kidnapped in the first place.

who sets up the committee? or APC infiltrated the committee too? SMGDH

seunfly: ok ooO!! Let them keep faulting any report that proved that the event actually happened, after all the report is from the presidential commitee not opposition nor anti government group.

The trend continues
An incident happens, then President takes his time to respond
He sets up a Committee, constitutes it membership at his discretion
Inaugurates the Committee with fanfare, assures Nigerians that the Committee will proffer solution to the incident
Then the Committee submits its report
And the task of discrediting the Committee and its report begins

It is always a tragedy to put narrow-minded people in the office of the president

The main error of this particular Committee is that it failed in its primary assignment ie to indict Gov Shettma of Borno and his government

And that is an unforgivable error in the eyes of President Jonathan and his people
Everything else (protecting the girls, doing something to ease the pains of the parents, rescuing the girls) is secondary

We cannot negotiate the release of the girls. We cannot attack the place because the girls will be killed
So?
The legendary short memory of Nigerians - they will forget

Meanwhile David mark is having a pleasant time in Brazil

The so called committee are nt serious.

Story Upon Story

gamesb: Its quiet unfortune that these animals called fulani people forment truobles every time , its high time u southern Kaduna people stop running and defend ur land , people and religion . I dont support violets but these muslium fools its too much for them . Stand up like DAVID in the HOLY BIBLE pray to GOD and fight those fools i bet u with our prays for u victory will be YOURS. GOD BLESS CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE.

Violets?! Wow which way Nigeria

BetaThings:

The trend continues
An incident happens, then President takes his time to respond
He sets up a Committee, constitutes it membership at his discretion
Inaugurates the Committee with fanfare, assures Nigerians that the Committee will proffer solution to the incident
Then the Committee submits its report
And the task of discrediting the Committee and its report begins

It is always a tragedy to put narrow-minded people in the office of the president

The main error of this particular Committee is that it failed in its primary assignment ie to indict Gov Shettma of Borno and his government

And that is an unforgivable error in the eyes of President Jonathan and his people
Everything else (protecting the girls, doing something to ease the pains of the parents, rescuing the girls) is secondary

We cannot negotiate the release of the girls. We cannot attack the place because the girls will be killed
So?
The legendary short memory of Nigerians - they will forget

Meanwhile David mark is having a pleasant time in Brazil

Untill we have serious government, the circle will continue irrespective of which tribe or zone is in power.

M