After four months of fruitless search of over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok area of Borno states, parents of the kidnapped girls have reportedly asked for the matter to be closed.
According to the parents, considering its been four months since their disappearance, they have presumed that their daughters are already dead and burial rites have been performed (in their minds) in agreement with their customs. They are however pleading with the government to ensure their corpses are brought back home for befitting burials.
This was disclosed to the media by the #BringBackOurGirls group on Friday, August 22, 2014 during its daily sit-out sessions at the Unity Fountain, Abuja.
Vanguard reports:
“All they said they want is their corpses to bury them honourably,” the group said.
As a way of driving their demand home, the group said it is vigorously mobilizing people on and offline and via social media towards holding a mega protest march in the FCT.
According to them, over 200 groups in Abuja have so far been contacted and have given positive response to participate, with 135 individuals on the group’s database contacted.
While calling on federal government to double its effort to free the girls, the meeting said only political and military action can rescue our girls, and that is why we do what we are doing to compel that.
The group added a new slogan #NotWithoutOurDaughters! in response to a question on when it will stop the campaign.
