Govt has not given up on rescue of Chibok girls, says Farouq

ABUJA– MINISTER of Humanitarian Affairs,Disaster Management and Social Development,Sadiya Umar Farouq,has reassured of government’s determination to rescue Chibok girls from their abductors, insisting that contrary to beliefs in some quarters that no action was being taken by the federal administration,it was determined to get the girls out of captivity.

Farouq said the federal government was working tirelessly to secure the release of the remaining Chibok girls who were abducted seven years ago.

A statement to this effect, Wednesday,by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Nneka Ikem Anibeze,said:”The minister made the remark while remembering sad incident of the abduction of hundreds of girls from Chibok Local Government Area in Borno State.”