The Ibrahim Sabo committee met with the Borno government, Borno elders and other stakeholders in the troubled state and made plans to also visit Chibok town, but just like the president did a few days ago, the committee failed to turn up in the town when parents had already gathered to receive them.
One of the parents of the abducted girls said their annoyance stemmed from the fact that they were told to gather very early at the Chibok secondary school but had to disperse hours later when news filtered in that the committee wasn't coming again.
"This was the second time this thing is happening," he said. "Last week we got information that the president was coming to see us in Chibok and we all happily gathered. We were there for hours, only to be told later that the president would not be coming. It was very painful because not all of us are from Chibok, but from other adjoining villages which are far. Some of us also trekked from our village to Chibok.
"We are not saying they should give us anything when they come, but when they keep running away from coming to see us, it gives us the impression that we are not Nigerians. If they, with all the security personnel around them, claim security concern as their excuse for not coming, then it means Boko Haram members can as well come and finish us for all they care."
A community leader in the town who also said the parents had vowed not to turn up again anytime anybody from the Presidency asked them to come. He added that the two occasions that high-profile visits were cancelled have made them (community leaders) look like liars before the parents.
It was gathered that the presidential fact-finding committee refused to embark on the almost 130-kilometre trip from Maiduguri to Chibok when they were told about the dangerous road to the town and the frequent attacks that Boko Haram insurgents had been unleashing on those plying the road.
(DAILY TIMES)
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