The global campaign, "Bring
Back Our Girls" pushing for the return of over 200 kidnapped schoolgirls by
the Boko Haram militants in the North-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok has hit
the Volta regional capital of Ho over the weekend.
The campaign saw dozens of
Christian and Moslem Women clad in mourning attires, including some school
children embarking on a peaceful solidarity marched through the principal
streets of Ho, from the RTC Park to the Pleasure Gardens, early Saturday
morning. Among them was also the Municipal Chief Executive for Ho, Mrs. Fafa
Adinyira.
They carried placards with inscriptions
‘Boko Haram, do not kill our daughters’, ‘our Nigerian sisters, we support you’,
‘away with terrorism’, ‘Africa is a united continent’, ‘release our sisters’, among
others. They sang songs calling on the various stakeholders to join hands to
search for the girls, who have being in abduction for over forty days.
Addressing the protesters
at the Pleasure Gardens, Madam Lena Alai, Volta regional director of the
department of Gender, said the Nigerian government to do everything within its
power to ensure the safe release of the girls to their families, who are in constant
agony and pain, adding that the financiers of Boko Haram should be fished out
and sanctioned appropriately.
She further stated that militants’
insurgence in Nigeria is a threat to the rest of Africa, and called on the
Chairperson of the African Union, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, who is a woman to
rally all women on the continent to condemn the atrocities of the Boko Haram, while
the various heads of state takes steps to disband the group permanently.
