#Bring
Back Our Girls
Who stopped the trend? It is over 100 days and it
looks like the girls are now enjoying their holidays or exile in Sambisa
Forest.
Don’t
get it wrong, am not trying to make a joke out of a serious situation, but let’s
face the fact.
There
was a time when we changed our twitter handle to #Bring Back Our Girls, we took snap shots with placards #Bring Back Our Girls, we even took to
the streets both here and in Diaspora #Bring
Back Our Girls all in solidarity of the Chibok girls.
After
100 days, the girls are not yet back and it looks like the trend is gradually
dying off.
The
incident of the abduction of the Chibok girls has raised a lot of questions.
Where they actually taken? If yes, where are they, and when are they coming
back?
The
story of Sambisa is one that we are now familiar with. I have no intention of
going to Sambisa, not until the land starts producing milk and honey, for now
it can’t even boast of water. That’s the forest where the Chibok girls are
assumed to be staying. Eating what? If I may ask.
I
once saw pictures of Israeli, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, British and American
soldiers all in Nigerian looking for the Chibok girls. I still wonder if they
actually came or were their presence overhyped.
Somehow
I began to wonder if 24, Iris, Strike
Back and lots of their ilk were sham. If it was easier for America and
Britain to capture terrorists and save a nation in less than 12hours, then we
really need the services of Jack Bauer,
Scott, Stonebridge and even John
Porter because it has taken our military over 100 days to find our missing
school girls.
It’s
high time we answered these questions of the Chibok girls, else when they will
finally return, it wouldn’t just be 249 or whatever number the Government said
were missing, they might just be coming back with twins and triplets. We lost
them as students but we might get them back as graduates.
Please
#Bring Back Our Girls
If you actually have them
Augustus Bill
©2014
TUN/0007//23/07/14
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