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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“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”.
In the statement entitled “Re – Presidential Committee on Abducted Girls”, Falana explained that aside his committed involvement in the ongoing nationwide demonstrations by protesters who are calling for the release of the schoolgirls from the Boko Haram custody, a committee of concerned Nigerians and parents of the girls has engaged him as their lawyer in the matter pending before the court.
He, however, thanked the federal government for appointing him as a member of the committee to make recommendations for the release of the students “who are still held incommunicado in the illegal custody of a gang of heartless criminals”.
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