…tasks FG to scale up efforts to rescue Chibok girls

By Laide Akinboade

ABUJA — BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) campaigners, yesterday, alleged an imminent attack on their daily sit-outs organised by the movement in Abuja.

At a media conference in Abuja to commemorate 100 days of the sit-out over kidnapped Chibok school girls by Boko Haram insurgents, Maureen Kabrik, who spoke for the group,  said though the group had taken some precautionary measures to avoid any planned attacks, they would also want to call on the Federal Government and all relevant security agencies to provide adequate security for their normal daily sit-out.

She said:  “While we continue in our resolve to remind government of its obligation to rescue the Chibok Girls, it is imperative that we inform the general public that the #BringBackOurGirls Abuja family is in possession of credible information about an imminent attack on the daily sit-outs organised by our movement.

”We have taken necessary precautions to avoid any planned attacks, but we are openly calling on government and its security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Service, to provide adequate security for our daily protest as we are not planning to give our protest up.

“We will persevere in the demand for the swift rescue of the abducted Chibok girls until they are brought back to us, safe and alive.”
The group, which had an hour of sealed lips in honour of the Chibok girls, said all Nigerians should bury their heads in shame, as none of the girls had been rescued 115 days after their kidnap.

“We urge the government to scale up its efforts in the rescue operation, to ensure that this debacle comes to an end because of the separation of the innocent girls from their grieving parents. Their education has come to a stand still, as they remain in captivity with the insurgents.

“Worse still, their continued stay in captivity has given room for unfounded speculations about the role the girls are purported to have played in recent suicide attacks.

”We should all bury our heads in shame that 115 days since their abduction, we have not produced any visible results. Instead, the girls are being victimised further by associating them with heinous crime. These girls are our collective trust.

“Every day they spend in captivity testifies to our collective failure as a people, even more so, the failure of our government to discharge its obligation to them. It is bad enough, the true condition of these girls is unknown.
“It is worse to begin to associate them with unspeakable and despicable crime. Our sense of decency and propriety is taking leave of us.”