Bring Back Our Girls campaign group sadly mark one year commemoration of
the abduction of our Chibok Girls. The
group plans one week of global action and are searching for 219
#ChibokGirlsAmbassadors who will be presented to the world on the 14th April as
they join BBOG all around the world in the #GlobalSchoolGirlsMarch to march for
the missing girls. Read the press statement below..
In exactly two weeks from
today it will be one year since 276 schoolgirls of GSS Chibok, Borno state were
abducted. 57 escaped but 219 are still missing.
We are all saddened as the
One Year of this heinous abduction approaches on April 14, 2015. We are hopeful
and still expect the rescue of our 219 Girls before that date. However, we are
organizing to commemorate this sad event if they aren’t back by then.
Effective from Wednesday,
April 8th, 2015, we shall begin a Global Week of Action with the theme:
#ChibokGirls #NeverToBeForgotten.
This shall terminate on the Tuesday 14th, 2015.
There is also the Chibok
Girls Ambassadors. Schoolgirls aged 10 -18 who would volunteer to stand for our
missing Chibok girls. Details are available at this link:
Schools would also be able
to participate by organizing marches called the Global School Girl March.
Details are available at this link:
During our Special Global
Week Of Action commemorating our #ChibokGirls’ abduction, we shall like to have
all our friends across Nigeria and the world to join in and support our
activities in their different communities, cities and countries.
The essence of this
Special Commemoration is not for entertainment. We find the continued captivity
of our girls unacceptable. And, we wish to demand expeditious global campaign to
accelerate all efforts being coordinated by the Nigerian Government and her
allies towards their rescue.
The effort of every man
and woman, far and near, in this particular period will be critical in driving
the required renewed demand and pressure to find our girls and bring them home
to their parents.
Wherever you are, we call
on you today to join in; to rally afresh and to mobilize resources to bring our
#ChibokGirls back on the front burner. A day in the captivity of terrorists is
agonizingly dreadful enough. One year is too much and too difficult to imagine.
Our #ChibokGirls are innocent global citizens that the world must ensure are
#NeverToBeForgo
tten.
Conclusion
From this weekend up to
today, Nigeria has been involved in a presidential and national assembly
electoral cycle that was generally accepted as successful. This is victory for
Nigeria and Nigerians. The success of the entire of process was largely because
Nigerians placed a demand on the electoral system, and with concerted effort,
coupled with true commitment and sincerity of purpose from all involved.
This should be a lesson
for all. With this same commitment and sincerity of purpose, we can have our
girls back soonest.
While congratulating both
the current president and incoming one, the president-elect, we demand that
both prioritise the rescue of our missing 219 #ChibokGirls as a topmost agenda
during this transition period, and to work together in assiduously in unison to
see that our missing girls return before the handover date of 29 May 2015.
However, if our girls are
not back by that date, we will continue demanding #BringBackOurGirls, and won't
stop, not until they are back and alive!
Thank you and GOD bless
Nigeria.
For and on behalf of
#BringBackOurGirls
Oby Ezekwesili
Hadiza
Bala Usman
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