Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday urged the Federal Government to rescue the Chibok girls.
The motion moved at the plenary by Hon. Sola Giwa from Lagos Island constituency 1 under Matter of Urgent Public Importance.
Giwa said: “The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government should direct the military and men of the Department of State Security (DSS) to take necessary steps to locate the girls to give confidence to the people.”
Hon. Moshood Oshun from Lagos Mainland Constituency 2 said 15 of the children were recently featured in a video by the CNN.
“We once requested for support from the United Kingdom and the United States of America on the matter. They yielded to the request and sent some of their military men to Nigeria, but the men were recalled as they alleged that they did not get the necessary support from the then President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government,” he said.
He said if the government could not get intelligence about the whereabouts of the girls, it should find a way of consoling the parents of the girls.
Speaker Mudashiru Obasa said the House sympathised with the parents and the Borno State government.
Obasa said: “We want to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to help find the girls. We read that Boko Haram members once demanded a huge amount of money to free the girls.
“The girls are our future leaders; so, the Federal Government should search for them to restore the confidence of Nigerians in the system,” he said.
Deputy Majority Leader Olumuyiwa Jimoh added that the Federal Government should locate the girls as their parents have become so much apprehensive about the whereabouts of their children.
Another lawmaker, Hon. Oluyinka Ogundimu, said the parents of the girls are in pains and that the matter should be resolved as soon as possible.
A human right activist, Comrade Femi Aborisade, yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital urged the government to organise and lead a monthly mass protests against Boko-Haram insurgency.
The activist spoke during a protest organised at the Nigerla Labour Congress (NLC) Secretariat to mark the two years of the girls’ abduction.
The group carried placards with inscriptions, such as:” FGN, keep your promise and brink back our girls, Chibok Girls abduction is not a mirage, it’s 2 years now bring back our girls, our missing girls must be found, this is a national calamity”.
Aborisade said the monthly rallies should be led by the president, governors, ministers, commissioners and the leadership and members of the legislature.
Members of the Church of the Brethren, also known as Ekelisiyar Yann’uwa a Nigeria(EYN), yesterday used its 96th annual conference to offer special prayers for the release of Chibok girls.
They were joined by colleagues from the Church of the Brethren from Illinois, United States. EYN church was based in Kwarhi village in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State but was forced to relocate to Jos, the Plateau State capital due to incessant attack by Boko Haram in October 2014.
Executive Director, Global Mission and Service, Mr. Jay Wittmeyer, who led the delegation from Illinois, said the Church would not be discouraged.
He said: “The actuall numbers of the girls abducted from the school two years ago are 278, out of which only few of them were lucky to escape.
“The school where the Chibok girls were abducted was established by the Church of the Brethren in 1948, but we handed the school over to Nigerian government and left back to U.S. where we came from. So today, it remains government school.”
He applauded the efforts of the Buhari administration for its consistent and committed efforts to rescue the girls.
The Church’s president Rev Samuel Dali, who presided over the special prayers for the missing girls, said: “Today marks the second year of the disappearance of our daughters from their school in Chibok. We are still weeping in our hearts as parents and as a church.
“178 of the missing Chibok girls belong to the church. The parents are members of this church and that is why we decided to organise the church’s 69th conference on the very day these girls were abducted.
“15 of the parents of the Chibok girls have been killed by the same people who kidnapped our daughters. 11 of the parents of the Chibok girls have died out of trauma in the last two years. Chibok village has also been attacked more than five times since then.
“As Christians we have no weapon other than prayers, we have been praying and we will continue to pray to our God to have mercy of these girls and the parents.
“Let there be no more attack on Chibok village or any village in the country, let there be peace all over the country and the entire world. Let the secret of those who abducted these girls to be revealed.”
The motion moved at the plenary by Hon. Sola Giwa from Lagos Island constituency 1 under Matter of Urgent Public Importance.
Giwa said: “The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government should direct the military and men of the Department of State Security (DSS) to take necessary steps to locate the girls to give confidence to the people.”
Hon. Moshood Oshun from Lagos Mainland Constituency 2 said 15 of the children were recently featured in a video by the CNN.
“We once requested for support from the United Kingdom and the United States of America on the matter. They yielded to the request and sent some of their military men to Nigeria, but the men were recalled as they alleged that they did not get the necessary support from the then President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government,” he said.
He said if the government could not get intelligence about the whereabouts of the girls, it should find a way of consoling the parents of the girls.
Speaker Mudashiru Obasa said the House sympathised with the parents and the Borno State government.
Obasa said: “We want to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to help find the girls. We read that Boko Haram members once demanded a huge amount of money to free the girls.
“The girls are our future leaders; so, the Federal Government should search for them to restore the confidence of Nigerians in the system,” he said.
Deputy Majority Leader Olumuyiwa Jimoh added that the Federal Government should locate the girls as their parents have become so much apprehensive about the whereabouts of their children.
Another lawmaker, Hon. Oluyinka Ogundimu, said the parents of the girls are in pains and that the matter should be resolved as soon as possible.
A human right activist, Comrade Femi Aborisade, yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital urged the government to organise and lead a monthly mass protests against Boko-Haram insurgency.
The activist spoke during a protest organised at the Nigerla Labour Congress (NLC) Secretariat to mark the two years of the girls’ abduction.
The group carried placards with inscriptions, such as:” FGN, keep your promise and brink back our girls, Chibok Girls abduction is not a mirage, it’s 2 years now bring back our girls, our missing girls must be found, this is a national calamity”.
Aborisade said the monthly rallies should be led by the president, governors, ministers, commissioners and the leadership and members of the legislature.
Members of the Church of the Brethren, also known as Ekelisiyar Yann’uwa a Nigeria(EYN), yesterday used its 96th annual conference to offer special prayers for the release of Chibok girls.
They were joined by colleagues from the Church of the Brethren from Illinois, United States. EYN church was based in Kwarhi village in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State but was forced to relocate to Jos, the Plateau State capital due to incessant attack by Boko Haram in October 2014.
Executive Director, Global Mission and Service, Mr. Jay Wittmeyer, who led the delegation from Illinois, said the Church would not be discouraged.
He said: “The actuall numbers of the girls abducted from the school two years ago are 278, out of which only few of them were lucky to escape.
“The school where the Chibok girls were abducted was established by the Church of the Brethren in 1948, but we handed the school over to Nigerian government and left back to U.S. where we came from. So today, it remains government school.”
He applauded the efforts of the Buhari administration for its consistent and committed efforts to rescue the girls.
The Church’s president Rev Samuel Dali, who presided over the special prayers for the missing girls, said: “Today marks the second year of the disappearance of our daughters from their school in Chibok. We are still weeping in our hearts as parents and as a church.
“178 of the missing Chibok girls belong to the church. The parents are members of this church and that is why we decided to organise the church’s 69th conference on the very day these girls were abducted.
“15 of the parents of the Chibok girls have been killed by the same people who kidnapped our daughters. 11 of the parents of the Chibok girls have died out of trauma in the last two years. Chibok village has also been attacked more than five times since then.
“As Christians we have no weapon other than prayers, we have been praying and we will continue to pray to our God to have mercy of these girls and the parents.
“Let there be no more attack on Chibok village or any village in the country, let there be peace all over the country and the entire world. Let the secret of those who abducted these girls to be revealed.”
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