By Victor Ahiuma-Young

ABUJA—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday directed its affiliates and members nationwide to the one week global action to rescue the girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State in April 2014, as Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, marks its second anniversary.

NLC in a statement by its factional President, Ayuba Wabba, recalled that it was exactly two years that the girls were criminally abducted from their school of learning by Boko Haram terrorists.

It said: “Precisely 276 schoolgirls were abducted in their school, 57 escaped, 219 remain missing till date. As many as 17 of their parents have reportedly lost their lives as a result of the trauma and many are daily agonizing.

”NLC salutes the leadership of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) for keeping the memory of the girls alive.

”An injury to these girls is certainly an injury to all us. It is not over until these girls are liberated from the clutches of the criminal abductors.

”NLC hereby calls on Nigerian government to intensify the security measures to liberate the girls. We acknowledge the commendable efforts of Buhari administration to smash the dens of the Boko Haram terrorists.”