Patience Jonathan faces more criticism on abducted school girls

Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has described the panel of inquiry allegedly set up by the First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan over the abducted school girls as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and should be disbanded without any further delay.

Femi Falana

In a statement on Thursday, Falana said the comment by some people, including Patience Jonathan that 'no child was missing' was insensitive and had the capability of deepening the agony of the abducted children's parents.

He said, "In spite of the inauguration of the Presidential Committee to investigate the abduction of the over 200 girls and thepublication of the names of about 185 of the missing girls by the CAN some political leaders have insisted that no child has been abducted."

He wondered why the government would be accepting help from international community to rescue the girls if truly they were not missing.

He urged President Jonathan to stop people from further trivialising the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14 in the interest of public morality.

Falana therefore called on the President to disband the committee set up by Patience to investigate the incident as she had no power whatsoever to institute a panel to investigate any matter in any part of Nigeria, while adding that even the one the president set up for the same purpose could best serve as a "ministerial act" and never as a Commission of Inquiry.