Several civil society organisations (CSOs) have said the military should not engage in blame game with the Amnesty International over its report on the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Dapchi Yobe state.
The CSOs said the military should mobilise its troops to rescue the abducted schoolgirls.
In separate statements issued to the media yesterday, the President Campaign for Democracy (CD), Usman Abdul, said: “The AI has their reasons for stating their position. Intelligence is the strength of the military and if we had younger officers at the helm of affairs, maybe the lack of prompt intelligence would not be a problem. What is needed is for the military to get their act together and rescue the abducted schoolgirls. That is our hope.”
Similarly, the Director, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Debo Adeniran, said, “Passing the buck is not what we need at the moment. It is failure of intelligence that allowed the insurgents to get to Dapchi and going away with the girls without trace.
“The AI also has to make its data available to Nigerians so that we can know what kind of pre-information was made available to the military.”
Also the spokesman of ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ (BBOG), Sesugh Akume, said the group backed the AI’s report, adding that the organisation simply echoed what the BBOG had earlier stated.
“We stand by everything the Amnesty International has said. Available evidence shows that everything the AI said is true.
“Part of the questions we have been asking the Federal Government is that they should explain what happened,” he said.
Akume noted that it was up to the Federal Government to explain what happened before the abduction and the controversies surrounding the incident.
DAILY POST recalls that the Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen. John Agim, in a statement, said the service chiefs and commanders in the war against the Boko Haram insurgency were doing all the best possible to end the “madness in the North-East.”
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