President Buhari Ready To Rescue Chibok Girls

The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, said on Tuesday, August 18, that its confidence has been boosted about the eventual release of the abducted girls by some pragmatic steps being taken by the Muhammadu Buhari administration recently.

Oby Ezekwesili addressing the audience during a meeting between #BringBackOurGirls campaigners and President Muhammadu Buhari

The group made this known during the unveiling of a series of activities it intended to carry out to mark 500 days in captivity of the Chibok girls. The BBOG campaigners expressed hope and confidence that sooner rather than later the girls would return, especially with the president’s December 2015 deadline to the military to defeat Boko Haram.

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However, the group said even though it is ever hopeful and expectant of the rescue of the girls, it will organize a global week of action to commemorate the abduction.

“This week of events is to remind the world that our 219 Chibok girls are still in captivity and not yet back 500 days on, and for everyone to call on their governments to do something to help bring them back. Not only governments, everyone can do something however little, to keep their tragedy of their abduction alive and to keep the hope that we can have them back,” the group said.

In a statement signed by its two coordinators, Oby Ezekwesili and Hadiza Bala Usman, read out to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the group said: “During this special Global Week of Action, in Abuja there will be a diversity of activities and events like, Asr Prayers this Friday at the Unity Fountain our usual meeting venue, as well as a special prayer service at the same venue on Sunday. Tree planting, an engagement with the UN secretary general at the Unity Fountain, march by #ChibokGirls Ambassadors, and so forth.”

A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location.

The group said Friday, August 21, 2015, will mark the beginning of their Global Week of Action #GWA, themed, “500 Days On, Chibok Girls — Crying To Be Rescued, Never To Be Forgotten.”

They encouraged Nigerians on social media to use the hashtags #GWA #500DaysOn #ChibokGirls #CryingToBeRescued #NeverToBeForgotten #BringBackOurGirls to commemorate the Global Week of Action.

They further enjoined everyone to wear red, or at least a touch of red in the memory and honour of the girls.

Day 500 of the abduction is on Thursday, August 27, 2015.

“We also solicit that you carry out any activity or activities that suit your convenience, for this purpose. It could be a march, candle light vigil, tying a red ribbon, delivering letters to elected representatives, etc. Also, be kind to remember sharing images of the events using the hashtags.

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“We must all continue to lend our voices to call for their rescue. We find their continued captivity extremely disturbing.

“Wherever you may be around the world, we urge you to join us in voicing out that our innocent #ChibokGirls (who are global citizens) are Crying to be Rescued, that the world must ensure that they are Never to be Forgotten. We cannot afford to move on without a positive closure on this monumental tragedy that befell young women who went to school to be educated, and us all,” the group said.

Meanwhile, to show the United States’s seriousness in its pledge to support Nigeria in rescuing the Chibok girls, who were kidnapped on the night of April 14, 2014, by the Boko Haram terrorist group, the US sent a congressional delegation to Nigeria.

The US congress members, led by Darrell Issa at a press conference on Tuesday, August 4, in Abuja, reiterated the United States’s willingness to collaborate with Nigeria in combating regional terrorism, insecurity and promoting human rights related issues.

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