Chibok: Parents Still Seeking Action, 8 Years After incident

Parents of the Chibok girls that were kidnap about 8 years ago, are still demanding action from the government
Amnesty International claims that since the Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped, over 1,500 kids have been abducted

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that parents of the missing Chibok schoolgirls have requested their daughters’ rescue eight years after Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped over 276 of them from their school.

While 110 girls were restored with their parents between 2016 and 2018 after a €3 million ransom was paid, around 110 girls remain missing since the abduction on April 14, 2014. In the Sambisa forest, three people were discovered or rescued.

Yana Galang, whose daughter, Rifkatu, was one of the abductees at the time, bemoaned the fate of her kid, who is still missing after more than eight years.

“It’s a very sad day again,” Galang, who talked to the press, said. Mothers, whenever we remember the 14th of April, we always cry. But everything is OK. As a woman leader, I advise and counsel people not to be concerned and to place our confidence solely in God.”

Yakubu Nkeki, whose daughter was one among those rescued, is relieved that she has been freed and is being cared for by the government, but he is concerned about the parents whose children have yet to be found.

Nkeki stated that he would continue to push for the hostages’ release and that the parents of the rescued girls would continue to express solidarity with those whose children were still held prisoner.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International claims that since the Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped, over 1,500 kids have been abducted.

The group claimed that authorities were progressively failing to protect children in the country, citing a reduction in school enrollment as a result of the fear of kidnapping.

‘Nigeria: Eight years after Chibok, thousands of children abducted by armed groups,’ the human rights group said in a statement released on Wednesday.

Hundreds of students were abducted from schools in Kaduna, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, and Niger states in 2021, according to our correspondent.

“The increasingly brazen method of recent abductions demonstrates that the Nigerian authorities are failing to prevent these atrocities from occurring, and have not learned any lesson from the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls eight years ago,” Amnesty International’s Nigeria Director, Osai Ojigho, said.

“In the meantime, the abducted children’s families are left with no chance of ever seeing their children again. Nigeria is failing to protect children who are vulnerable.

“The Nigerian authorities have failed to prevent mass abductions of thousands of schoolchildren by neglecting to respond to warnings of planned attacks on schools across the northern region of the country.”

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“In every case, the Nigerian authorities have shown terrible aversion to investigating these attacks or ensuring that the perpetrators of these heinous acts be brought to justice.

“With each new incident, more kidnappings occur, depriving schoolchildren of their right to liberty and leaving victims’ families with no chance of justice, truth, or restitution.”

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