It looks like we are more willing to rally together to support Nigerias football team than we are willing to continue to speak out and call for the safe release of our girls. 😢Humanity has failed. #bringbackourgirls Nigerian schoolgirls: Inquiry into Boko Haram kidnapping wraps up with more than 200 girls still missing BY AFRICA CORRESPONDENT MARTIN CUDDIHY SAT JUN 21 06:31:08 EST 2014 mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-21/nigeria-wraps-up-kidnap-investigation-with-200-girls-still-miss/5540586 Nigerian authorities say more than 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in April remain unaccounted for, as the government wraps up its inquiry into the attack. Submitting the final report, Brigadier General Ibrahim Sabo said 219 girls remained missing, a total virtually unchanged since Boko Haram militants stormed their secondary school in the north-east Borno state on April 14. It is understood 57 of the girls who escaped have been reunited with their families. The Nigerian government has been repeatedly accused of not doing enough to find the missing girls and rescue them. Now finally authorities have provided accurate figures as to how many girls are actually missing. Last month the Nigerian Army said it knew where the girls were being held, but said despite numerous offers of international assistance, it was too dangerous to launch a rescue mission. The kidnapping of the teenage girls taking exams in Chibok village sparked global outrage for its sheer barbarity. The governments failure to rescue the girls, or protect them before their abduction, has become a political liability for president Goodluck Jonathan ahead of elections next year. We are ... pained that the schoolgirls remain in captivity, Mr Sabo said in a statement.
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