The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG advocacy group in a new year press conference at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Friday, asked the Federal Government to set up a search and rescue team for the recovery of the 219 Chibok Secondary School girls missing since 2014.
The girls had been abducted from their hostel by Boko Haram terrorists in a midnight raid.
Addressing journalists at the event, former Minister of Education and leader of the BBOG group, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili lamented that the President Buhari did address the rescue of the Chibok Girls in his new year message.
“Boko Haram cannot be said to have been defeated technically or otherwise without the safe return of our abducted daughters,” she said.
She said further that;
“We especially noted with great dismay that the issue of rescue of our Chibok girls and other citizens in terrorist captivity did not feature in the president’s New Year address to the nation today (Friday).
The implication of such a deliberate omission is not lost on us.
"Therefore we the #BringBackOurGirls movement, families of our Chibok girls, the Chibok community, and all sympathisers to the cause of these innocent schoolgirls continuously unjustly treated will be marching to re-engage with the president in two weeks, on Thursday January 14, 2016 at the State House.
“This date will be exactly 21 months since their abduction, and three months short of two full years in captivity. We shall meet at Unity Fountain as from 8.30 am that day to proceed on the march. We have already dispatched a letter to the President, duly acknowledged by State House officials.”
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