On the grounds that his membership would be at cross purposes with his earlier engagement in the struggle, Lagos lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has rejected his appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan as a member of the presidential committee set up to embark on a fact-finding mission into the controversy surrounding the abduction of over 234 schoolgirls in Chibok.
Falana noted in a statement that the military had, after all, announced "last week that the girls would regain their liberty in a matter of days".
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