The Bring Back Our Girls campaigners seeking rescue of the schoolgirls abducted from their dormitory in Chibok, Borno State, has taken their campaign to different countries’ embassies in Abuja to press for more efforts in the rescue operations.
On Friday, the group took their protest to the Cameroon High Commission in Abuja to press for the rescue of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted over six months ago.
According to the group, the responsibility to curtail the activities of the insurgents rest on the government of Nigeria and Cameroon, which is bordering Nigeria in the east.
They are demanding that the Cameroonian authorities collaborate with the Nigerian government to secure the release of the abducted girls.
“What do we want? Results on the rescue operations. When do we stop? Not until our girls are back and alive,” the campaign group, led by a former Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, chorus at the entrance of each embassy visited.
The campaign group has held over six months of persistent protest with the #BringBackOurGirls slogan, which went viral on social media few weeks after the girls were abducted.
For the campaigners, there is no going back until the Chibok girls are returned to their parents.
They have decided to put pressure not only on the Nigerian government, but also on the Cameroonian authorities.
Apart from the march to embassies the group also offered special prayers for the abducted school girls, by an Islamic cleric who condemned the activities of the insurgents.
According to the cleric, the Islamic faith has no objection to western education.
The group is hoping that international collaboration from neighbouring Cameroon and Niger will speed up government’s efforts to contain terrorism and return the abducted girls to their parents.
The campaigners had taken the campaign to the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, seeking the attention of President Goodluck Jonathan, but they were denied entry.
In an effort to end the insurgency in the north-east, the Nigerian government reached a ceasefire agreement with representatives of the Boko Haram sect in a meeting where the release of the girls was also discussed.
