BBOG: We won’t stop until Chibok girls are freed

The #BringBackOurGirls group will continue pressing for the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls, “even though it appears the world has forgotten about them”  and the tempo of the campaign has fallen.

According to one of the leaders of the group, Mrs Aisha Yesufu, who was speaking with TheCable in Abuja on Tuesday, the rescue campaign will not cease because of the “shared humanity” with the girls.

“The fact is that we look at these girls as our daughters. If my daughter was involved, I won’t have any reason not to come out. And the fact that they are not our children doesn’t mean we would not feel what the Chibok parents feel,” Yesufu said.

“The tempo has reduced, agreed. For more than 100 days, we have been coming out. Everybody is tired. We ask for results of the rescue operation, but it appears there is no rescue operation at all. We still keep coming out and demanding the rescue of the girls.”

Yesufu, who now moderates the daily sit-ins of the group, conceded that other issues such as the Ebola threat and the growing insecurity in the country were drowning the call for the rescue the 219 Chibok girls in the den of Boko Haram.

“We will keep the case of the Chibok girls on the front burner as much as possible. The only time the movement will stop is when the girls are brought back safe and alive,” she said.

It has been 127 days since nearly 300 girls were abducted from their dormitory at Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, in Borno state.

While 57 girls have escaped, 219 are still in captivity.

Tuesday makes it 112 days since the #BringBackOurGirls group coordinated by former education minister Obiageli Ezekwesili and Hadiza Bala Usman started campaigning for the rescue of the girls.