Yesterday, the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has asked the authorities of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, to release the names and pictures of the schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014. The National Women Leader of the PDP, Dr. Kema Chikwe, made the comment while conducting a PDP Women’s prayer session for the unity of the country in Abuja on Monday.
APC kicks against the publishing of the names and pictures of Chibok girls, adding that such can still endangered the girls.
Also, Borno State government yesterday advised the National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mrs Kema Chikwe not to play politics with the lives of 234 girls abducted in a secondary school in Chibok 17 days ago. A statement by Isa Umar Gusau, the special adviser to Governor Kashim Shettima on Communications, said the government was shocked that Chikwe raised doubts on the abduction of the girls, described it as unfortunate.
But Chikwe had said the issue of the kidnapped girls had raised a number of questions which had not been answered. She said the abduction of the schoolgirls had left the hearts of the womenfolk not only broken but also bleeding. She said women would continue to intensify prayers for the Boko Haram scourge, terrorism, insurgency and kidnapping to be brought to an end in the country.
“We need a peaceful and united Nigeria. We as women of Nigeria, as mothers will intensify our prayers for the end of Boko Haram, end of kidnapping, release of the Chibok girls, end of terrorism and insurgency in some states in Nigeria “Let the truth be told with God’s intervention. Our hearts are bleeding, not just broken. Please God send the Chibok girls home to their mothers and families,
“We plead with the school authorities to release their names and their pictures. Let God touch the hearts of those who know and have perpetrated this heinous action,” she said
She stressed that the kidnaping of the Chibok was the worst of the crimes in recent time.
“There are many questions to be asked and more to be answered. How did it happen? Who is behind this? Who are those behind this? Those behind these crimes love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil,” she said
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