“Bring Back Our Girls”

In Northern Nigeria college girls were taking on April 15 by a Muslim guy called Bako Haram. These girls were ages 15 to 18 christians and muslims. “About 50 girls escaped the kidnappers and 276 were still missing,” said a police officer. The Nigerian government have done nothing so far to  recuse these girls. One of the parents said they have given up on the Nigerian government and officials. The parents carried weapons like bows and arrows to persuade the kidnappers but end up returning home. The families of the lost girls are asking the United States and United Nations for help to help get their daughter back. While there is a major international search going on for missing people their is no meaningful search for even the greater number of missing schoolgirls.

The secretary of states, John Kerry who is visiting Nigeria stated that the United States needs to nudge Nigerian authorities to do more to find  the girls. The Nigerian authorities started a campaign website  on the White House website, on Change.org and on Facebook to demand: “Bring Back Our Girls.” All this may or may not help, but it’s worth trying for.  The militants in Nigeria destroyed  school last year alone. If the girls aren't rescued, “no parent will allow their female child to go to school,” Hadiza Bala Osman, a protests in Nigeria warned in a telephone interview. Northern Nigeria is a deeply conservative area.  The Nigerian military has shown a little interest in rescuing the girls.  These girls have been enslaved for their brain and to become “wives” of militants. On monday the agency of Nigeria received  a message from one of the kidnappers Mr. Shekau admitting of kidnapping the girls.  They deserve a serious international effort to rescue them.

By: Aminata Koroma