PUNCH NEWS
A group, The Northern Christian Youth Professionals has appealed to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to work toward securing the release of the remaining abducted Chibok school girls.
The plea, among the others in the past, is coming nine years after 276 students of Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, were kidnapped by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014.
The abduction had sparked outrage and condemnation from both local and international media with political leaders and activists putting pressure on former President Goodluck Jonathan to rescue the girls, while offering intelligence and technical support.
The pressure continued after the Jonathan administration, elapsed and the incumbent President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) emerged as the new leader in 2015.
However, in spite of the spirited effort and intervention put in by the Buhari government to facilitate their freedom after the kidnapping, nearly 100 of the girls remain missing.
The Amnesty International has pegged the current number of students still held captive by the radical Islamic sect at 98…
