Chibok Parents Lose Hope, Request For Daughters' Bodies For Burial

Parents of the kidnapped Chibok school girls have lost hope of
reuniting with the missing girls, as they said they want the matter
closed, since the government has been unable to rescue the girls for
the past four months.

More than 200 girls were on April 14 abducted at the Government
Secondary School, Chibok by the dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram, but
the concerted efforts of the military has not yielded any fruit.

Since the girls have been missing for more than four months, the
parents said they presumed the students to have died for which their
funeral rites have already been performed in their (parents') minds
according to their custom.

They, however, urged the federal government bring the girls' corpses
for honourable burial.

The parents' position was disclosed yesterday by the #BringOurGirls
advocacy group, during its daily sit-out meeting for the rescue of the
missing school girls at Unity Fountain, Abuja.

"All they said they want is their corpses to bury them honourably,"
the group said.

As a way of driving their demand home, the group said it is vigorously
mobilizing people on and offline and via social media towards holding
a mega protest march in the FCT.

According to them, over 200 groups in Abuja have so far been contacted
and have given positive response to participate, with 135 individuals
on the group's database contacted.

The group however called on the federal government to double its
effort in rescuing the girls, recommending political and military
action, which the group said is the only means by which the girls can
be rescued..."and that is why we do what we are doing to compel that."

Asked when it will stop the campaign, the group replied with a new
hashtag; #NotWithoutOurDaughters!