I recognize some of them because we are in the same area with them so I recognize them. They are not the way they were when they kidnapped them.
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Saa was consoled by Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat who has traveled to Nigeria to push the government to do more to secure the girls’ release. “I tried to stand up and fell because my leg was no more”. “But I’m somebody who’s trying to urge people to keep on focusing on it and hoping that something will be done, something effective and conclusive”. The campaign was supported by Michelle Obama and dozens of celebrities.
In a letter addressed to the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG Advocacy Group, Clinton noted that rescuing the abducted Chibok girls is a step in the right direction towards advancing equality for women and girls in around the world. “For as long as they remain captive, humanity is in captivity”, Sambidda said. Not one body of those 219 girls, there’s no corpse that has appeared.
“I am speaking on 25 December 2015, on behalf of the all the Chibok girls and we are all well”, Naomi Zakaria says in the video.
“Based on testimonies from other women and girls who were abducted, there’s a high probability they’ve been through some forms of exploitation and abuse – sexual abuse or child labor”, Duvillier added.
Another parent broke down crying after seeing that the video did not feature her daughter.
The footage was apparently filmed in December and given to government officials by the jihadists as proof of life for negotiations. Ifejika says the clip doesn’t say much without that verification.
Looking timid and staring at the ground they are asked where they were taken from. “So it’s heartening to see that they look so well, physically, but there still are so many questions not answered about what their status is, where the rest of them are”. It also shows the rebel group’s leader stating he will release the girls in exchange for prisoners. Since their kidnapping, the girls have appeared in global news sporadically. The Chibok abduction was not an isolated incident.
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They have become the most notorious victims of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and known as the Chibok girls. It took Jonathan until May 4 of that year to publicly speak about the kidnapping of the girls, in which he criticized the student’s parents for not cooperating with providing information to the authorities. The United Nations Children’s Fund thinks 2.3 million people have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, with 1.3 million of them children.
