The BringBackOurGirls Group in its quest to ensure the safe release and arrival of the abducted Chibok Girls, On Monday 16th January 2017 joined the Federal
Government’s team on a day search for missing Chibok girls to Sambisa Forest, The Group is traveling with the team heading for the North East to witness first-hand the military’s ongoing search for the girls.
The trip will enable the campaigners to have firsthand information on the efforts beign made by the Nigerian Military to rescue the girls
Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, convener of BBOG, Dr. (Mrs.) Oby Ezekwesili and others are pictured this morning with others as they are about to board a NAF plane to the vast and dreaded regionRecall, the Federal Government had invited members of the advocacy group to join in a short tour of the Sambisa forest to observe the search by the military for the missing schoolgirls.
The forest was a Boko Haram stronghold and the location the terror group was believed to be hiding the abducted schoolgirls. About 2,000 have been reportedly abducted by Boko Haram since 2014, with many of the women used as sex slaves, fighters and even suicide bombers, according to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization.
The BBOG began its campaign for the rescue of the Chibok girls two weeks after they were abducted on April 14, 2014.
More than a thousand days after, 195 of the girls remain with their Boko Haram abductors.
Negotiations between the federal government and the Boko Haram had led to the release of 21 of the girls while another three were freed by soldiers. Dozens of others had escaped on their own.
Despite losing most of the territory they controlled at some point, including the dreaded Sambisa forest to Nigerian troops, the insurgents have kept hold of the 195 girls.
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