The Acting Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu has called on the Nigerian Military and other security agencies to evolve measures to end the continued abduction and violation of the right to education of girls in North-East Nigeria.
The Commission's Acting Executive Secretary made the call in Abuja on Monday in a statement issued by the Head of Media, Fatimah Mohammad. The statement condemned the recent abduction of schoolgirls from Government Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, stressing that the development was capable of having negative psychological and physical effect on the girls.
“Such experience was capable of inflicting both physical and psychological torture on the innocent school girls, just as it was an affront on their fundamental right and freedom.”
While commiserating with the families of the victim, Ojukwu called on the federal government to take urgent steps toward securing the release of the girls.
