Chibok girls

Parents to Jonathan: fulfil your promise on Chibok girls

Some parents of the abducted 219 girls of the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, yesterday recounted the kidnap of their children.

They wondered whether their daughters would ever return. They were abducted on April 14.

The parents who met with the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group in Abuja on New Year Day expressed displeasure over the federal government’s inability to rescue their daughters from the Boko Haram sect.

Led by Rev. Mark Enoch, nine of the affected parents urged President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to the promise he made to them six months ago on the safe return of their daughters.

They commended the BBOG campaigners for not allowing the issue to the swept under a carpet. Enoch said he suspected that the government had a hand in the abduction of the girls.

An aggrieved mother, Mrs. Samuel Abana, said: “I want to remind the President of his promise. When he met with us; he promised to rescue our daughters, he said he would bring the girls back, but six months later, there is no result.

“Mr. President, will you fail to rescue them if your daughter was abducted? If you can’t do it alone, invite the United Nations to come and rescue our daughters.”

Mr. Bulama Jonah recollected how his daughter might have missed been abducted.

He lamented: “the saddest thing is that my daughter was sent home because of N300 just a day before she was kidnapped. I gave her the money for her testimonial and she went back to school only to be abducted. ”