BBOG GROUP MARKS 100 DAYS OF SIT-OUT WITH ‘LIPS SEALED’

The #BringBackOurGirls Group yesterday marked 100 days of its daily sit-out sessions with its members keeping their lips sealed in a demonstration of empathy with what the over 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok must be passing through in the hands of their abductors.
The group stated that the one hour for which its members kept their lips sealed was difficult enough and so could only imagine what the girls must be going through, having spent 115 days in captivity without a voice of their own.
Part of the statement read by the group said, “Today marks day 115 since the abduction of over 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, while they were sitting for their final exams. The world seems to have moved on, as we note with concern the lack of evidence to back the statements by the government that all is being done to rescue our girls. We also note statements credited to the US government over sighting of the girls in July 2014.”
It further said, “Knowing the location of the girls is a positive development but this is not the first time Nigerians have been told that the location of the girls is already known. We also note the ambiguity in the statement credited to the president in Washington DC that efforts to negotiate with the insurgents are ongoing even though the earlier position of the government had been that it would not negotiate with Boko Haram. It is this ambiguity and double talk which gives our movement great cause for concern about the sincerity of the effort to rescue the abducted girls.
“We call on the government to provide adequate information on how this is to be achieved considering that the insurgency in the North East has only escalated in the past several months and previous assurances by the government and its functionaries have not produced any results.”
The group urged government to scale up its efforts to rescue the girls and end the situation of the separation of the innocent girls from their grieving parents.
“Their education has come to a standstill, as they remain in captivity with the insurgents. Worse still, their continued stay in captivity has given room for unfounded speculation about the role the girls are purported to have played in recent suicide attacks. We should all bury our heads in shame that 115 days since their abduction, we have not produced any visible results. Instead, the girls are being victimised further by associating them with heinous crime,” the group said.
Source: Leadership