Where are the abducted girls?

This was also the day of the horror of bomb blast in the morning at Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja where almost one hundred people died, though some believed it could be more than two hundred and many others injured.According to reports, gunmen went to the school and took the girls away in many vehicles, […]

This was also the day of the horror of bomb blast in the morning at Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja where almost one hundred people died, though some believed it could be more than two hundred and many others injured.
According to reports, gunmen went to the school and took the girls away in many vehicles, including pick-up trucks.
With this brazen   abduction of young innocent girls by the militants, something heinous  has again been introduced into the insurgency.
The very thought of the girls in the hands of men makes one cringe. What is their fate, what are they going to do to them, how afraid the girls would be, thinking about their parents, are questions that nag the mind and refuse to go away.
However, few of the girls were able to escape along the road when one of the cars broke down.
One of the girls who narrated the ordeal to BBC Hausa said, “Upon seeing that, some girls close to the door dropped out of the car and ran into the bush. We also jumped out and followed them into the bush, where we stayed till morning before we headed back to our homes.”
The reality that the young girls JUMPED out of a vehicle, RAN into the BUSH, SPENT the NIGHT in the bush, underlines the gravity of the situation to make teenage girls to behave like that, in order to escape.
Other three girls were also said to return home later, but as for the rest, we hope the security agents would find them soonest, like YESTERDAY.
One of the fathers of the abducted girls, also told BBC Hausa the he would rather his daughter was dead than being abducted.
“I can’t quantify what I am feeling now, my mind would have been more comfortable if I had seen the dead body of my daughter,” he said.
He added that in order to find his daughter, he followed the route of the abductors and spent the night in the forest before coming back home. When he came back home he found his wife in coma.
The tale of woes are many from the parents and guardians, however other people also share in the pain and pray for the immediate release or rescue of the teenage girls.
The questions that baffles the mind is how the insurgents were able to drive many vehicles and abducted the girls without being intercepted by security agents, especially in a place that is under emergency rule.
This is national tragedy and an indictment of the government that nobody is really secure in Nigeria. I saw somebody who was solemn yesterday; he said the insecurity in the country has damped him, lamenting the abduction of the girls.
“We are on our own, nobody is safe. You cannot be sure of anything anymore,” he said dejectedly.
President Goodluck Jonathan should do something to bring the insecurity to an end. We need action rather than rhetoric of condemnation.
Wherever the girls are taken to, they should be found.  Meanwhile, our fingers are crossed.