According to Sahara
Reporters, Aggrieved mothers and other indigenes of Chibok, Borno State,
today in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, staged a protest to demand the immediate
rescue or release of the more than 200 secondary school girls abducted by
suspected Boko Haram insurgents on
April 14.
The protesters, most of them members of the Kibaku Development Association, Chibok,
converged at Eagle Square in
Nigeria’s capital. From there, they marched to the National Assembly to submit a protest letter. The women were led
into the premises of the national legislature by a group of senior female
police officers.
Senators, Barnabas
Gemade and Helen Esuene received
the protesters, telling them that the Senate was considering a motion in
relation to the abducted girls. The two senators assured that the content of
the Senate’s resolution would be communicated to the women later today. The
senators appealed to the protesters to calm down and show restraint, pledging
that everything would be done to secure the release of the girls in due course.
Some of the protesting women, who were all dressed in black,
seemed unimpressed by the senators’ tepid words. A number of the women betrayed
their emotion and wept profusely, a few of them rolling on the ground.
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