Expectations were high yesterday in Abuja that the abducted girls of the Chibok Girls Secondary School girls could be released today from the Boko Haram gulag.
At the sit-out of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) protesters in Abuja, parents and campaigners expressed hope in the planned release.
Mrs Rebecca Samuel, mother of Sarah Samuel, one of the girls in the sect’s custody, said:
“The government should not be ashamed to ask for help from other countries to rescue our daughters, since obviously they cannot do it on their own.
“If they could have done it alone, they would have done it a long time ago.
“We don’t trust the government and all their claims of a ceasefire at all. We cannot believe them until we see our daughters. This is because Boko Haram so far has proved that they can agree on a ceasefire today and tomorrow they change their minds.
“If I wake up tomorrow to find out that my daughter is back, I will be excited and thankful to God because it is all we have been praying for.
“I don’t care if she comes back pregnant, we will accept her and pray for save delivery because the important thing is that she is alive so that she can return to school and complete her education.”
One of the leader of the #BBOG advocacy, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, said if the Chibok girls were not rescued today as promised, it will be tragic, because it will make it three times the hope of Nigerians have been raised and dashed.
“If the hopes of Nigerians get dashed ones again, it will be difficult to imagine the kind of grief that will be generated and it will be a kind of grief that those it is directed to, will not want to experience,” she added.
Mrs. Ezekwesili added that the advocacy would not just fold up and go, whether the outcome of the rescue is positive or negative.
“God forbid, if tomorrow (today) comes and our girls are not back.
“We are not going to simply fold our mats and go whether we have a positive or negative outcome. If tomorrow comes and tomorrow comes positively, it will birth a successive initiative with the focus on the girl-child in Nigeria.
“The Chibok girls are a symbol of what we must continue to advocate for, in the aspect of the girl-child in Nigeria.”
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