Parents of the school girls who were
abducted by Boko Haram from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok,
Borno State last Tuesday, have joined search and rescue efforts to save
their children.
They have vowed to sacrifice their lives for their children – if that is what it takes to find them.
These brave parents stormed the dreaded
Sambisa Forest in Borno State, one of Boko Haram’s hideouts, where it is
believed the girls are being held hostage. Many of the parents are
alleging that the military has failed to enter the forest and rescue
their children, Vanguard reports.
One of the girls’ fathers, Mallam Amos Chiroma, recounted his experience during the search process:
“While we were in the forest with
over 200 volunteers who only had cutlasses, bows, arrows and sticks, we
came across different make-shift camps suspected to be owned by
terrorists.
It is however unfortunate that we
had to turn back when we met one good Samaritan in the forest who
advised us that it was in our own interest to go back because the area
we were approaching in
the forest was a dead zone dominated by
terrorists.
If soldiers had accompanied us to
the forest, we were optimistic that our missing children would have been
rescued, or we would be satisfied if we can just see the dead bodies of
our daughters,” he said.
Another parent, Mallam Shettima Yau Haruna,
expressed that although all are incessantly praying for the safe return
of their daughters, prayer alone is not enough. He urged the government
and security officials to intensify search efforts.
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has promised to deploy all human and material resources towards the safe release of the missing students.
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