By Jibrin Baba Ndace
Abuja
A former Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) and a member of People Democracy Party (PDP), retired Brigadier General Ibrahim Sabo has been appointed by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to chair a Presidential Committee on the rescue efforts for the missing female students of Chibok,Borno State.
A statement by, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim said “the Committees whose work shall be largely fact findings is charged with the following terms of reference:
(a) To liaise with the Borno State Government and establish the circumstances leading to the School remaining open for boarding students when other schools were closed;
(b) To liaise with relevant authorities and the parents of the missing girls to establish the actual number and identities of the girls abducted;
(c) To interface with the Security Services and Borno State Government to ascertain how many of the missing girls have returned;
(d) To mobilise the surrounding communities and the general public on citizen support for a rescue strategy and operation;
(e) To articulate a framework for a multi-stakeholder action for the rescue of the missing girls;
(f) To advise government on any matter incidental to the terms of reference.
2. The committee is composed as follows:
(i) Brig. General Ibrahim A. Sabo (rtd.) – Chairman
(ii) Barrister Femi Falana, SAN
(iii) Hajiya Hawa Ibrahim
(iv) Hajiya Fatima Kwaku
(v) 2 representatives of National Council of Women Societies (NCWS)
(vi) 2 representatives of the All Nigeria Conference of
Principals of Secondary
Schools (ANCOPSS) one whom shall be a female.
(vii) 2 representatives of the National Parents Teachers Association
(viii) 2 representatives of the Nigeria Police
(ix) 2 representatives of the State Security Service
(x) 2 representatives of the Nigerian Army
(xi) 2 representatives of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)
(xii) 1 representative of the Federal Ministry of Information (who shall be the committees’ spokesperson)
(xiii) 1 representative of the Federal Ministry of Justice
(xiv) 3 representatives of Borno state government (two of whom, preferably, shall be women)
(xv) 1 representative of the United Nations
(xvi) 1 representative of ECOWAS (who shall be a woman)
(xvii) Permanent Secretary (Special Services Office) OSGF – Secretary
