By LAIDE AKINBOADE-ORIERE

ABUJA – #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, Sunday, celebrated the mothers of the remaining 219 Chibok girls that were abducted by Boko Haram.

In a statement that was read at the fourth week of its six weeks countdown to the war against  terrorism and rescue of the Chibok school girls,  in Abuja.

The group said Nigerians should take time to pray for the grieving mothers whose daughters are yet to be rescued after 335 days of abduction by Boko Haram.

It also tasked the Federal Government to disclose  the circumstances surrounding the previous and current rescue operations of the 219 #ChibokGirls.

The statement reads, “Fortuitously, Nigeria is today celebrating Mother’s Day and we cannot but spare more than a passing thought for the Chibok Mothers who have had to bear so much agony for almost a year.

“Today, we stand with the grieving mothers of Chibok. We ask our leaders to pause for a moment and think about what these women have been forced to suffer and the nightmare they are still burdened with because of leadership inaction. Would our leaders allow their own mothers experience a quarter of this emotional torture?”.

The statement went further, “We demand therefore, at this stage, a full disclosure of the circumstances surrounding the previous and current rescue operations of our 219 #ChibokGirls.  It must be noted that as of now, not one single girl has been rescued. We maintain that the life of every Nigerian citizen matters.

File:BBOG protest in Abuja

“Having waited with great anxiety for news of our 219 #ChibokGirls over the last Four Weeks we are now extremely agitated that they are not being accorded the priority attention that should lead to their rescue.  Appalling, does not even adequately describe the situation concerning our abducted 219 Chibok schoolgirls. The country’s leadership, charged with ensuring the security and well-being of every Nigerian citizen, regardless of ethnicity, class, religion, gender or age, seems content with paying lip-service to the fate of our girls. There is no modicum of empathy for the emotional torture the parents of the girls are going through”.

They recalled, “The #BBOG CountdownTo 6Weeks is a monitoring initiative that has provided us with an invaluable prospect to closely scrutinize the Federal Government’s activities for reclaiming territories lost to Boko Haram insurgents. As has been stated repeatedly, this monitoring is driven by the need to show that the role of citizens holding those in positions of governance accountable for their actions is both necessary and practicable, especially in a democracy.