By Sadiq Abubakar
Maiduguri
Borno state government has asked former President, Goodluck Jonathan to make public findings of Presidential committee he set up to investigate the abduction of Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.
State Commissioner for Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo gave the state government position while reacting to earlier statement by ex-president’s media aide, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze last week, calling on Governor Kashim Shettima to tell Nigerians what he knew regarding the April 14, 2014 abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram after the sect attacked Government Secondary School, Chibok.
In a statement issued on Saturday in Maiduguri, the commissioner said “Nigerians should ask Jonathan why he concealed reports of his own fact-finding committee.”
Kubo said he was one of those interrogated by Jonathan’s fact-finding committee on Chibok school girls’ abduction, and was embarrassed with the statement in which Eze asked Shettima to tell Nigerians whatever he knew regarding the April 14, 2014 abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram after the sect attacked Government Secondary School, Chibok.
Kubo said, “Rather than direct spurious allegations to Governor Shettima on controversies surrounding the abduction of Chibok school girls, the media aide should ask his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan, why he deliberately concealed (the) report of a presidential fact-finding committee he constituted and inaugurated on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 and which submitted the report of its findings to him on Friday, June 20, 2014.
“For the purpose of records, Eze and his colleagues are pointing towards the wrong direction; they should ask their principal, Jonathan, why he deliberately refused to make public the report of a committee he constituted, inaugurated and received their findings on facts surrounding the Chibok abduction and who is to blame for it.
“For nearly two months, the committee undertook a thorough investigation that included forensic assessment of all documents on the entire issues, held meetings with parents of the school girls, visited Chibok, met with the then Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, the Director-General of the DSS and the Inspector-General of Police, all of whom were appointees of Jonathan.”
