Missing SchoolGirls Parents Laments, Cries for End of Boko Haram Menace

Desperate Nigerian parents pleaded yesterday for an end to their “nightmare” after Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 girls from a secondary school in the embattled northeast.

The mass abduction by heavily armed insurgents from the Chibok area of Borno state late Monday came just hours after a bomb ripped through a packed bus station on the outskirts of Abuja, killing 75 people, the deadliest attack ever in the capital.

The bombing was also blamed on Boko Haram, a group whose five-year extremist uprising has shaken Africa’s most populous country and top economy.

“They took away my daughter,” said one woman from Chibok, who like several parents requested anonymity given the uncertain fate of the children.

“I don’t know what to do,” she said, urging the government to find the kidnappers. “They should not allow our daughters’ dreams to be shattered by these murderers.”
A father who said his daughter was taken in the attack described the ordeal as a “nightmare.” “The whole town is in mourning,” he said from Chibok. http://main.omanobserver.om/?p=73928

About 80 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Monday were reportedly rescued on Tuesday and Wednesday morning by a group of vigilante, local hunters and soldiers.

The joint security team pursued the insurgents in search of about 100 girls they abducted.The insurgents, who were carrying the school girls in Tipper Lories, were alleged to have got stuck in the bush while they were trying to crossover some muddy area between Chibok and Askira/Uba.

According to the father of one of the rescued girls Malam Ali Iliya, the girl said when the trailer got stuck, some of the girls jumped out and ran for their lives.

“They were scattered in the bush when the vigilante and local hunters found them. Some of them were wounded, some were with fracture, which I believe was as a result of jumping from the high vehicle, but we are happy that our children have been rescued.

“Now we are praying for those who are still with the Boko Haram; our prayer is that every father will have his child back”, he said.
http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/04/80-kidnapped-girls-escape-from-boko.html