Chibokgirls: Parents want closure & demand for their Daughters Bodies.

It has been four long months after over 200 girls were taken from their school in Chibok, Borno State, the Nigerian Government is yet to find them and return them to their families.

On Friday, marking 130 day of the girls’ abduction, over 50 protesters marched from the Unity Fountain to the National Secretariat demanding that the girls be returned alive. The demonstrators distributed flyers and stickers. They chanted: 

“What are we demanding for? Bring our girls back and alive” as they marched

One of the leaders of the march, Hadiza Bala-Usman, told PREMIUM TIMES:

“The parents said they would rather know that theirs daughters are dead and their bodies brought back and buried so as to put an end to this endless wondering about the status of their children. They are calling on the Federal Government to help them search for the bodies of their children; that’s if they are dead. It’s better for them to know that their kids are dead and the bodies are brought back.”

The parents position was made known at the #Bringbackourgirls advocacy group daily sit-out meeting for the rescue of the missing girls at Unity Fountain, Abuja. The group said all the parents want at this time is for the bodies of the girls to be returned to them so they can be given proper burial. “All they said they want is their corpses to bury them honourably” the group said.

An official of the Centre for Democracy and Development, Jibrin Ibrahim, who was also at the protest ground, said that the march was to remind the Federal Government of its responsibilities. Mr. Ibrahim said:

“Today is 130 days since the abduction of the girls. Since they were abducted, our government promised us swift action, to search and rescue them; that, has not happened. We are therefore out on the street to remind the government that they have a responsibility to rescue these girls and return them to their parents and homes.”