The Nigerian government on Tuesday announced that it has launched an investigation into the abduction of schoolgirls from the Yobe state.
A committee has now been established to find out how Boko Haram militants kidnapped over 100 girls from their school in the northeastern part of the country.
This is the largest abduction by Boko Haram militants since over 200 Chibok school girls were kidnapped in 2014.
The information ministry said in a statement on Sunday that “The federal government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on Monday.”
On Monday members of the group stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi with locals initially saying that the girls and their teachers fled the attack.
Information minister of Nigeria, Lai Mohammed said the 12 member committee would look into the “presence, composition, scale and disposition of security” in Dapchi in the run-up to the attack.
Boko Haram abduction of school girls from Chibok received worldwide condemnation and campaigns for their release. Some of the over 200 Chibok girls kidnapped have been release and rescued.
Source: Africafeeds.com
