National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is collaborating with the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group to establish a databank of missing persons in the country.

Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Bem Agwe, who made this known at a roundtable organised by the commission in Abuja.

Agwe saying thiswould put up strategies that would ensure thatthe adeniran we have a database that will record persons who for reasons of insurgency or other reasons are now missing or have disappeared.

According to Officially, today in the country, about 1.8 million Nigerians are displaced but officially again, we do not have the exact record of those who are affected by the insurgency.

According to him, the country is long overdue for a centralised and effective databank that will profile all Nigerians and have information on all Nigerians.

Executive Secretary said if this was done, it would be easy to note and identify when a Nigerian missed or had been affected by any form of calamity.

He said the commission would come up with a statement on how soon the database would be ready after the technical session.

He, however, enjoined every Nigeria to report immediately, any case of a missing person as a result of activities of the insurgents to any of the commission ‘s offices nationwide.

In a goodwill message, an Adviser on Monitoring and Evaluation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the office of the Vice President, described the event as a scientific landmark, saying this was so because the commission was adopting an empirical approach to the problem of a database for missing people in the country.

Okeosanyintolu said this was so because the commission was adopting an empirical approach to the problem of a database for missing people in the country.

On her part, Bukky Shonibare, a member of the strategic team of the BBOG group, noted that all lives were important and therefore the life of every Nigerian must be accounted for.

Shonibare added that in developing the missing persons register, it was important to take into account Nigerians who were living outside Nigeria as well as foreigners living in Nigeria.

The participants at the roundtable were drawn from the National Identity Management Commission and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

The other were the National Refugee Commission, the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Emergency Management Authority, the Red Cross, among others.