'Set target for missing girls' rescue,' Reps tell Buhari

dimeji akinloye

April 14, 2016 10:30 PM

The House eventually agreed to send a “high-powered delegation” to the town of Chibok to commiserate with the parents and relatives of the missing girls.

Screenshot of some of the chibok girls speaking from captivity in a video released by CNN weeks ago.

Two years after 219 girls were abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok,

The House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, stated this after a long debate on a motion, moved by the All Progressives Congress member, representing Damboa/Chibok Federal Constituency of Borno State, Mrs. Asabe Bashir, to mark the second anniversary of the girls' abduction.

“A time has come for us as an institution, to insist that the executive should set targets for the rescue of the girls.

“We have to set targets so that we don’t lose the sense of urgency that is required to free the girls”, Dogara added.

The Speaker commended the Bring Back Our Girls’ campaigners for not giving up on the struggle for the girls' freedom.

“We must also commend the security forces of our country, who have been toiling day and night, searching for these girls,” he said.

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Earlier today, Thursday, April 14, the #BringBackOurGirls group marched to the Presidential Villa in Abuja to commemorate the two years anniversary of the girls' abducted, but they were prevented from gaining entrance into the Villa by the Police.

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