The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to securing the release of the remaining abducted Chibok schoolgirls and Leah Sharibu, assuring Nigerians that the girls have not been forgotten despite the passage of time.
A total of 276 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, but eleven years later, 87 girls are still believed to be in captivity.
Similarly, Leah Sharibu was among the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic State West Africa Province fighters from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, 2018.
Speaking during a multi-agency meeting on anti-kidnapping, organised in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency in Abuja, on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Maj Gen Adamu Laka, stated that while some of the kidnapped girls had been rescued over the years, efforts to free the remaining ones had not relented.
