Amid dwindling hopes for their rescue, relatives of over 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their school, on Thursday marked 500 days of the unfortunate event.
Amid increasing use of females for suicide bombings by the militants, hopes are receding for the rescue of the Chibok Girls, despite the imminent deployment of the 8700 troops Multinational Joint Task Force assembled by the countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
Boko Haram terrorists had stormed Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State on the night of 14 April 2014, abducting 276 girls from their hostels. They had been preparing for their final examinations.
Fifty-seven managed to escape but the fate of the rest has been a subject of speculations ever since. Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau once boasted in a video that the girls had all converted to Islam and been married off.
To mark the grim campaign, the #bringbackourgirls group staged a youth march in Abuja on Thursday. Dozens of young campaigners in red shirts and ribbons also processed through the streets of Abuja, carrying placards and banners with the names and photos of some of the missing girls.
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