Chibok girls protesters to march on Villa

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) – the group campaigning for the release of the abducted girls of the Chibok girls secondary school, abducted more than one yesr ago – are planning to march on the Presidential Villa in Abuja to rev up the call for action by government.

They have also written to President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking to know what plans the new government has in place to pursue the release of the girls from the Boko Haram gulag.

A senior member of the group, Aisha Yusufu, told members at their usual sit out in Abuja yesterday that the group wrote a letter to President Buhari ýover 10 days ago but had not got a response since the letter was delivered.

She spoke of the need for the President to recognise that the Chibok girls and their families have suffered enough and Nigerians need to be reminded that they have a government which cares about their well being.

Yesufu also condemned that failure of the President to address the country or the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) on the World Refugees Day since the country currently has over a million persons displaced all over with thousands of refugees in Cameron and Niger Republic.

Her words: “The world celebrated the World Refugees Day on Saturday and it is disappointing that the President did not deem it fit to address the country, instead, we are flooded with pictures of him in Daura visiting his cows. It is really unfortunate that Nigerians are suffering and he did not have a single word of comfort for them.

“ We wrote to him over 11 days ago as a group about meeting with him, so that he can tell us what he has been doing so far about rescuing the Chibok girls and ending the insurgency in the Northeast but unfortunately we have not received any reply from him, we are going to be embarking on a protest march to the Presidency, so that as citizens, we will know what is being done in our country.”