Chibok Girls:One Year in Captivity

On the 14^th of April 2014, over 270 female students were abducted from their hostel at the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State,Nigeria by boko haram insurgents.While some of the girls managed to escape but one year after,the whereabout of more than 200 girls girls have remained unknown as military and other security agents efforts have proved abortive.

To commemorate the abduction of the girls, the #BringBackOurGirls group in Abuja started sitting at the Unity Fountain in Abuja few weeks after the abduction to create awareness about the abduction and the necessity to find the girls and return them to their parents. They also staged a ‘silent march’ to commemorate 365days since the abduction of the Chibok Schoolgirls in Borno state.

One can only imagine the agony and trauma the families of the abducted girls have been facing.There have been a few sightings of some of the abducted students but very little official information from a government that has long promised to rescue them from the clutches of Boko Haram. These girls went to school and never came home. All we can do is to hold fast to our hopes and prayers that one day these girls will come home. They are gone but never to be forgotten.

May God strengthen their families because the agony not knowing where your child is or knowing that your child might be alive but in the hands of cruel people is traumatizing on its own.