Chibok Girls: Ezekwesili, Others Urge FG for Tangible Rescue Results

EZEKWESILI LEADING OTHER BBOG MEMBERS

Defying the rain and the attendant flood, the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group weekend, continued its outcry urging the Federal Government (FG) to expedite action in the rescue of the nearly 300 school girls of Chibok Government College, Borno State.

Representing the group, the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, made this disclosure at the Speak-Out-Saturday rally organised by the Women for Peace and Justice Coalition held at the Marina Waterfront, CMS, Lagos.

As the protesters including indigenes of Chibok walked  the streets of the Marina with placards that read; 'We ask for the truth, nothing but the truth', 'We want results from the rescue operation', 'We shall not stop until our girls are brought back alive', they called on the FG to being back the girls now and alive.

While distributing stickers with the inscription “No Girls No Vote!”, Ezekwesili urged those present never to stop giving their voice to the clarion call for the rescue of the Chibok girls.

She said, “We are saying we have confidence in our government to go before our common enemies. We saying prove to those that harassed the citizen that you are capable and that the Nigerian state is not a weakling."

Ezekwesili alongside other women, while decrying the disappearance of the girls for over 83 days after they were abducted lamented that there was still no result from the rescue operation, neither has the truth been told.

She said the case of the Chibok girls represents one evidence that shows the system is not working in Nigeria, adding that the insurgents would not have carried out the abduction plan successfully if the system works.

She said, "The important role that the state government must play in the welfare of the people of Borno should not be ignored. Some of those things are important to scrutinise in what has become a public war between the state government and the FG.

“The children of Chibok do not care who runs the federal government and they do not care who runs state government or who runs the local government.

“How often have we been hearing of the arrest of female suicide bombers in Nigeria? Is this society thinking at all? We cannot afford not to be strategic in connecting the dots.

"The presence of young women of impressionable age being 83 days in the camp of terrorist depresses the society. That is why the only thing we want at this stage is result from the rescue operation.

"I promise that the day the girls would be brought back to their parents alive I would do a break dance in praise of the Almighty who has been with us. I don’t believe in the power of the political prayer. The Bible says I should work and pray.”