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ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian group that sparked a global campaign for the safe return of schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 said on Tuesday it would sue the government if it failed to provide answers over a similar mass abduction last month.

 

Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners speak during a news conference on the abducted Dapchi and Chibok girls in Abuja, Nigeria March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Islamist militant group Boko Haram took 110 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Dapchi on Feb. 19. and, under a previous administration, it kidnapped 276 girls from the town of Chibok in 2014.

“The magnitude of incompetence and carelessness of our government enabled the repeat of the worst abduction tragedy,” said campaign group Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG).

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