Chibok Girls: Parents Want Case Closed, Say Funeral Rites Already Performed

More than four months after unfruitful search for their
abducted girls, parents of the kidnapped Chibok school girls said they want the
matter closed.

Since the girls have been missing for more than four months,
the parents said they presumed the students to have died for which their
funeral rites have already been performed in their (parents’) minds according
to their custom.

They, however, urged the federal government to bring the girls’
corpses for honourable burial.

This position was disclosed yesterday by the #BringOurGirls
advocacy group, during its daily sit-out meeting for the rescue of the missing
school girls at Unity Fountain, Abuja.

“All they said they want is their corpses to bury them
honourably,” the group said.

As a way of driving their demand home, the group said it is
vigorously mobilizing people on and offline and via social media towards
holding a mega protest march in the FCT.

According to them, over 200 groups in Abuja have so far been
contacted and have given positive response to participate, with 135 individuals
on the group’s database contacted.

While calling on federal government to double its effort to
free the girls,  the meeting said only
political and military action can rescue our girls, and that is why we do what
we are doing to compel that.

The group added a new slogan #NotWithoutOurDaughters! in
response to a question on when  it
will  stop the campaign.

Vanguard