President Is Having Sleepless Nights - Committee Admits During Chibok Visit

President Is Having Sleepless Nights - Committee Admits During Chibok Visit

A Presidential fact-finding committee, that visited on Thursday, May 29, Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Borno State from where more than 40 days ago the schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram, stated that Jonathan was having sleepless nights.

According to a statement signed by the panel’s spokesperson, Kingsley Osadolor, the committee was received at Chibok by the state Commissioner for Education, Chairman of Chibok Local Government, five District Heads of the surrounding communities, Chairman of the Parents/Teachers Association of the school, the Principal and several others, including wailing parents of the abducted girls.

Some female students who escaped from the insurgents were also present.

The panel’s spokesperson said the members of the committee visited the school’s burnt-out structure. They were conducted round the school. The Principal, Vice Principal, Matrons of the hostels as well as security guards and cooks were earlier debriefed by the committee in Maiduguri. The committee later held an interactive session with the Chibok communities on the school premises.

During the meeting, the committee’s chairman, Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim Sabo (rtd), stated they came to sympathise with the parents and other community members over the havoc of the insurgents. He assured the people of President Goodluck Jonathan’s concern about the fate of the abducted students, saying the President was having sleepless nights.

The Commissioner for Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo, expressed happiness over the visit and urged members of the committee to convey to President Jonathan the people’s hope and belief that the girls would be found and reunited with their families.

Source: Legit.ng

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