Nigerians wait 5 years to have lost chibok girls

Nigeria scored 5^th Chibok's anniversary of the kidnapping this month with fearsome attacks against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to do enough to find and release the last 112 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.

It was a tragedy that surprised the Jonathan administration, made it confusing and finally gave his opponents the necessary balls to remove him from his duties, recalls the director.

In a damning article published by Premium Times, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, said that half a decade after their kidnapping at the Borno Public School, children are still under the grip of Islamist insurgents.

Emblem of Boko Haram violence
According to Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, who is also CEO of the Murtala Mohammed Foundation, girls have become the symbol of all the thousands of Nigerian women kidnapped and enslaved during the last decade of the Boko Haram insurgency. This, in addition to some 50,000 people killed since the launch of their brutal crusade in 2011.

The scathing report titled "The Girls of Chibok: An Emblem of Violence Against Boko Haram Women" also highlights shocking allegations in a 2018 Amnesty International report that thousands of Women who survived the terror were victims of an organized system of rape and badual exploitation at the hands of the state. officials.

Scars that do not heal
The co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement short-sighted policies that have failed to shed light on the whereabouts of children. She warns that the horrific experiences of women in northeastern Nigeria will not be healed if a community-based truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation mechanism is not put in place.

In its report on the anniversary, Premium Times publishes the names of the 112 girls in bold, a sad reminder of the sleepless nights that their families and their benefactors spend waiting for their return.

Up to 23 of my cousins ​​and nieces were among the abducted children, remembers Veterinarian Allen Manbadeh, who is the spokesman for the Chibok Development Association and the local branch of #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

"Three of my cousins ​​managed to escape in the first days of their abduction and the others stayed with the group in the hands of their captives for more than two years until the government Nigerian negotiates their release, "said Manbadeh.

Silence pain
The Chibok elite who spoke to RFI from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, also evoked the traumatic experience experienced by the parents of the children while they were waiting for news of the 112 missing children.

"So far, we have lost 21 parents because of various types of diseases, organ failure, heart attacks, hypertension, all that indicates the pain felt." Allen Manbadeh regrets.

According to Chibok's counselor, "some people do not talk about it and remain silent and relieve their pain," because of the government's alleged inability to keep them informed of what they are doing to save the girls.

"This is part of what adds to their trauma, because talking to them constantly may have stimulated hope at some point," says Dr. Manbadeh.

With regard to the group of 107 people who were released, he claims to be in a preparatory school at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, in the state of Adamawa, where they were taken away after their rehabilitation to continue their studies.

Kobo campaign for Chibok
Despite the importance of financial resources for the #BringBackOurGirlsAllen Manbadeh swears that the movement has received no money from the government or NGOs, which means they must continue to be self-financing.