BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

#BRING BACK OUR GIRLS#

Three weeks and counting and we are no closer to securing the missing girls safe return. Instead, there have been more hand wringing, posturing, mumblings and dribbling from the government and one unelected individual.

#BringBankourgirls campaign, has drawn and captured the worlds imagination and the compassionate Nigerians home and abroad are matching up and down in unison .The world has taken notice of the extent in the breakdown of law and order in Nigeria.

Wole Soyinka who spoke so passionately and eloquently on CNN about the present tragedy in Nigeria and the prolonged menace of BH. He is right. Something should have been done so long ago instead; this government has kowtowed, pleaded and bargained with this mad and murderous group for are too long. During that time thousands of lives have been destroyed with sections of the country living in perpetual fear and dread.

The leader of the mad and dammed, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau has gone on record for all to see, ranting vile tirades that he did abduct the girls and now threatened to sell? The abducted school girls. The Boko Haram leader said of the Chibok kidnapping? I abducted your girls? He taunted with a chilling smile? There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell.

The ease with which this monster makes his audacious pronouncements is horrific and alarming that such rag tag army have held the people of Nigeria for so long to ransom. The Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger, Dr Babangida Aliyu, spoke to the U.S. officials that the April 14 abduction happened in a part of the country? Where up till today we still beg parents to bring their children to school?

He made a valid point that? ‘For the abduction to happen in a school environment means that if we do not do anything, we will be taken fifty years back, because many parents would be discourage to send their children to school.

Where are our armed forces? And where is the chief of armed forces? Where are the task and advance planning? Juno went on air to say that his government is working hard to release the girls and that he was happy and Nigerians were happy that there was no report that the girl were harmed! Can someone tell Juno that these girls were forcefully, and aggressively abducted by

Murdering maunders, these girls did not go willingly. I cannot begin to fathom the rationale of t

is man and motley crew. This is case of the blind leading the blind. His other half fared no better. She had accused everyone including the parent of the missing girls, of trying to destroy her

husbands’ rule. Can someone tell this woman to put a cork in it and that she has no mandate

to rule and beside ,an elected official can be unelected and removed with due process. They have shown that they cannot and do not know what to do and all they are concerned about

is saving their own skin.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron told the British Parliament that the kidnapping was ?an act of p

re evil?. He pointed out that people in Nigeria are angry at the government’s response. There a

e extreme Islamists around our world who are against education, against progress, against equally  and we must fight them and take them on wherever they are. They say that those the gods wish to destroy they, first make mad. We are watching the unraveling of this in real time.

We are watching a runaway train and we cannot remain silent, not while these young girls are missing. Nigeria is not working and we know it and the world now knows it.

Enough said. We would like the safe return of the girls. The world has cotton on that; we as Nigerians must garner this support and pressure this government to do something and something quickly. If anything, the abduction of these young girls serves as a catalyst to call to action for all

Well-meaning Nigerians.

Now that the government has agreed to receive help from varying quarters. United States, Britain

China and a host of other nations have stepped up to assist. Britain is sending a small team of advisers, possibly including some military officers to help with planning and coordination. However, they will not take part in operations on the ground.

The US is flying out a group including experts in intelligence, law enforcement and hostage negotiations, with fewer than 10 military troops going. The West has offered help to the Nigerian authorities; the US in the form of specialist negotiators, police and military advice, while the UK

already has training teams on the ground and counter-terrorist officers from Mi6 and Special Forces.

Michelle Obama has gone on record to publicly support the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, has goes on record saying that the world must not stay silent over the abduction.

She told the BBC that if we remain silent then this will spread; this will happen more and more and more.

Maya Angelou, respected American writer and civil right activist wrote? Each one of these girls

is our daughter, our sister, our niece, our aunt and our mother. The future of Nigeria and Africa

and New York and Europe and the United States etcetera, etcetera, is threatened by the robbing

f these young women’s future. We must have our darlings back so that we can help them to heal from this horror.

Former UN chief, Kofi Annan, also appealed for action. He criticized both the Nigerian government and other African nation’s reluctance to help free the girls.

Now that the government has welcomed outside help perhaps, now perhaps we can see some action. A presidential spokesman Doyin Okupe told the BBC, that the country welcomes international support to defeat Boko Haram, but defended its record. We are even fighting a war that we have to limit and manage collateral damages but the insurgents do not care, he told the BBC’s Newsday programme. And they can kill soldiers, they can kill villagers, but we cannot do that and people must understand that, we have to fight this war within the rules of engagement that is accepted internationally.

So the Nigerian Police has placed a reward of $7m (£4.6m) and 50m Nigerian naira (£182,000)

has been issued for information leading to the location of BH. A little too late.

The girls and their families and indeed, the whole world are waiting. While Nigeria is facing a tremendous challenge and it is not going be easy. We pray for the safe return of the girls. We have to speak out and with one voice #bring back our girls!