United Nations can scrutinise Nigeria’s school abductions
Following the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on 11 December 2020, and subsequent attacks on schools in Zamfara and Niger States in early 2021, United Nations human rights experts issued a statement on 11 March 2021 criticising Nigeria for failing to conduct “an impartial, independent investigation” into the incidents.
Following the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, on 14 April 2014, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), acting under its treaty mandate, launched an inquiry into Nigeria’s handling of repeated abductions of women and girls.
By Wale Adewale Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has argued that the United Nations lacks the power to investigate the Oriire school abduction because it is a domestic security matter.
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