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President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday set up a fact-finding committee to unravel the inconsistent and contradictory information on the abducted school girls in Chibok, Borno.
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, made the disclosure after a high-level security meeting, presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja.
Maku said the fact-finding committee, which terms of reference would be made public, would comprise security agencies, civil society organisations, international organisations and other stakeholders.
The minister added that the committee would, among others, determine the actual number of the kidnapped girls, noting that the figures and the circumstance of the kidnapping had been inconsistent.
He said the President had also directed full medical treatment for victims at government expense.
The minister said the President had also directed that security agencies should intensify efforts to rescue the Chibok girls and assured Nigerians that ``wherever the girls are in the world, we will get them back, apprehend and punish the culprits.’’
On efforts by security agencies to rescue the girls, Maku said there were extensive and intensive aerial surveillance by the Air Force in all the routes leading into and out of Chibok up to the Chad and Cameroun borders.
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, made the disclosure after a high-level security meeting, presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja.
Maku said the fact-finding committee, which terms of reference would be made public, would comprise security agencies, civil society organisations, international organisations and other stakeholders.
The minister added that the committee would, among others, determine the actual number of the kidnapped girls, noting that the figures and the circumstance of the kidnapping had been inconsistent.
He said the President had also directed full medical treatment for victims at government expense.
The minister said the President had also directed that security agencies should intensify efforts to rescue the Chibok girls and assured Nigerians that ``wherever the girls are in the world, we will get them back, apprehend and punish the culprits.’’
On efforts by security agencies to rescue the girls, Maku said there were extensive and intensive aerial surveillance by the Air Force in all the routes leading into and out of Chibok up to the Chad and Cameroun borders.
