‘Don’t forget Chibok schoolgirls’

The group said this when its leaders visited Media Trust Limited, publishers of the Trust newspaper titles, at the company’s head office in Abuja.The group, led by Mrs. Maryam Uwais and Mr. Dino Malaye, expressed concern that the government had not been able to rescue any of the over 200 girls still in Boko Haram […]

The group said this when its leaders visited Media Trust Limited, publishers of the Trust newspaper titles, at the company’s head office in Abuja.
The group, led by Mrs. Maryam Uwais and Mr. Dino Malaye, expressed concern that the government had not been able to rescue any of the over 200 girls still in Boko Haram captivity, 135 days after they were taken.
“219 girls are still out there, we feel it is necessary to remind Nigerians about the plight of these girls,” Mrs Uwais said.
“As human beings, we have to empathise with the parents of these girls. We must continue to insist that our girls must be brought back and we can’t forget that our girls are out there.”
She noted that the campaign to bring back the Chibok girls was neither political nor against the government, adding that her group was neither hijacked nor infiltrated as insinuated.
Malaye said the group is on an awareness campaign to resuscitate the consciousness of Nigerians to the suffering of the abducted girls.
“The primary occupation of government is to protect the security of the country; it is not an agitation to condemn government but asking them to own up to their responsibility,” he said.
Melaye, who denied that the group had a bank account, asked: “How can a top security agency come up with a policy statement that a group is a franchise and allow the continued existence of that group?”
He challenged the State Security Service to make public the purported account number and expose those funding it.