Parents of the schoolgirls kidnapped from a secondary Chibok, Borno State, have urged the Nigerian government to confirm if their daughters are already dead, and hand over their bodies for burial.
The parents said they would rather welcome such news and prepare for the funeral than wait endlessly for update on the fate of their children abducted by Boko Haram April 14.
The solemn call came Friday, more than four months after armed insurgents stormed Government Secondary School in Chibok, loaded more than 200 girls on to trucks, and drove them away in the dead of the night. Schools and students have been major targets by the Boko Haram insurgents
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, said the parents of the abducted calls were asking the Federal Government to bring back the bodies of their children if they were dead already.
“The parents said they would rather know that their 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” she said. “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,” he said.
