Nigeria: Abducted Girls - Falana Rejects Appointment As Committee Member

On the ground that his membership would be at cross purposes with his earlier engagement in the struggle, Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Chief 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 school girls in Chibok.

Besides, Falana, who noted in a statement to this effect that the military had, after all, announced last week that the girls would regain their freedom in a matter of days, said, "In the light of the foregoing I regret my inability to accept the appoinment to serve on the Committee to determine the number of the missing girls."

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