Chibok Girls: Take military action now to rescue our girls, #BringBackOurGirls tells FG

One hundred and twenty days after the Chibok school girls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, the BringOurGirls group, yesterday, challenged the Federal Government to take military action to rescue the girls. Abuja : Former Nigerian Education Minister and Vice-President of the World Bank's Africa division (3r L) Obiageli leads a march of Nigeria women and mothers of the kidnapped girls of Chibok, calling for their freedom in Abuja on April 30, 2014. The group said the call became necessary since it had become clear that Federal Government cannot negotiate with the abductors because of the belief that it did not have what the sect was demanding in return for the release of the girls. The group made the call, yesterday, after marking the 111 days of its sit-out protest campaign at the Giwa Park, Asokoro, Abuja. The group maintained that the excuse by the Federal Government that a military operation will endanger the lives of the girls is not tenable because as the situation is, their lives are already endangered as they remain in captivity. Speakers after speakers, who spoke at the occasion, stressed the need for government to explore other means of rescuing the girls including engaging the vigilante and hunters in Borno in the rescue efforts.

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