The NIA boss said this in Abuja yesterday at a closed door meeting with the presidential fact-finding committee on the rescue of the girls.
Spokesman of the committee, Kingsley Osadolor, in a statement, quoted Oke as saying: “We will not know peace until these girls are found. We must agree as a people that this is the time to end the menace of Boko Haram. The incident (Chibok abduction) has awakened a new sense of humanity and collective pain to all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria.”
He briefed the committee extensively on the measures taken so far by the agency in the joint intelligence and security efforts to locate the whereabouts of the abducted schoolgirls and ensure their safe reunion with their respective families.
He said the committee also met with Defence Minister Lt-Gen. Aliyu Gusau Mohammed (rtd) who he quoted to have noted that the Boko Haram insurgency should have been dealt with a long time ago.
Osadolor said Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar also explained to the committee, the circumstances surrounding the girls’ abduction as well as the immediate steps taken by the police.
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