THE ongoing search for the 110 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, GGSTC, Dapchi, Yobe State, has been extended to the neighbouring countries, the federal government has announced.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, March 2, Lai Mohammed, the minister of Information and Culture, said top military and security officials on Thursday, March 1, travelled to the North-East to add more urgency to the search, which has now been extended beyond the North-East theatre.

The officials include Abayomi Olonisakin, a general and chief of Defence Staff; Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, a vice-admiral and chief of Naval Staff; Tukur Buratai, a lieutenant-general and chief of Army Staff; and Lawal Daura, the director-general of the Department of State Services.

They joined Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, an air marshal and the chief of Air Staff, who had earlier relocated to the North-East, as well as Babagana Monguno, a retired major-general and the national security adviser, NSA, who has also visited the theatre.

The federal government had earlier released the names and other details of the 110 girls who have yet to be accounted for, following the attack on the GGSTC, Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 2018.

The panel set up by the federal government to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of the girls was inaugurated on Thursday, March 1, by the NSA.

– Mar. 2, 2018 @ 15:26 GMT |