During an emotional speech at the TIME 100 gala, Bring Back Our Girls co-founder former minister,
Obiageli Ezekwesili lamented on Tuesday night that hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist group,
Boko Haram last year are still missing. She also called on
President Obama to do more to help find the girls. Read excerpts or watch her emotional speech below;
“How can we be in a world where technology can find you in your bedroom and today we have nothing on the matter of our 219 girls?. There’s absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do. But the same God has given man and woman the power of choice. Whatever we choose to do, we can accomplish. Let’s choose to bring our girls back, please?”
“It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. If he could get Osama bin Laden, he could get our girls. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls, that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.” The TIME 100 honouree said in remarks that brought some attendees to tears.
Watch her entire TIME 100 gala speech below.
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