From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri

Unlike in the past, Madam Martha, one of the parents of the abducted Chibok girls wasn’t in the mood to exchange pleasantries with Sunday Sun reporter who called her on phone mid week. “Will you people allow me mourn my tragic fate?” she screamed from the other end before she hung up the line.
This encounter underscores the angst of many of the parents of the Chibok schoolgirls especially as this weekend marks exactly 1000 days after Boko Haram abducted their daughters.
Chibok, a lively community in the southern part of Borno was relatively unknown until April 14, 2014, when Boko Haram struck at the Girls Secondary School, a boarding school in the community in the night and kidnapped about 270 girls from their dormitory. About 56 of the girls were able to escape from the abductors days after the incident occurred, but others were whisked away through the thick vegetation of southern Borno to the insurgents’ camp in the dreaded Sambisa forest. The abduction attracted international outrage, leading to the formation of #BringBackOurGirls campaign to press on the federal government to intensify efforts at rescuing the girls.
Since then, Chibok and its people have been in mourning and anxiety while few of the parents died in the process.

Midday joy
The rescue of Amina Nkeki, one of the abductees by the military in collaboration with Civilian JTF on May 20, 2016 and release of 21 others in October, 2016, rekindled hope that many of the girls may still return home someday, especially with revelations from those recently freed that many of the girls were in the vast Sambisa bush, Boko Haram’s major operational base before it fell recently. “It was like a mid day joy,” Maina Chibok, uncle to one of the kidnapped girls, told Sunday Sun.
He said many of the parents and relations had hoped the rescue effort would continue in same manner particularly when they learnt that the military was conducting a crackdown on the insurgents’ camp mid December.
But with the military announcement that it had captured camp zero, the supposed heartland of Boko Haram’s camp in the forest, without discovering the remaining Chibok girls, many of the parents and relations are now worried and troubled.
“The revelation that the military captured Sambisa without our daughters being found only dashed our hope,” said Lucky Maina, a cousin to one of the abducted girls. “We go to bed each day in pain,” he added, noting that “each day was a long lonely day,” for them.

Stick and Carrot approach needed
Some parents are unsure their daughters are still alive, said Dr Manasseh Allen, leader of a Chibok youth group that first started campaigns for the rescue of the girls. “Nobody can feel the pains and anguish of our family members whose daughters have not been found. It is something that one can’t imagine,” he said, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to keep his promise.
“President Buhari promised during his inaugural ceremony on May 29, 2015, that he would rescue all the abducted Chibok girls. It is now 1000 days and almost two years in office, the president should keep his promise,” he stated.
He said the community would not keep quiet until the girls are rescued alive. “We had always thought and believed the girls were in Sambisa forest but now that the military said they couldn’t find the girls there, having captured the place, how then did the remaining 196 girls escape from Sambisa forest?” he asked rhetorically.
He also recalled a statement credited to the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who said last year that the move to secure the release of another batch of the girls after the first 21 girls, was in process. “The Minister of Information said about 82 or so of the girls would be released but we haven’t heard anything since then.”
He urged the government to intensify its carrot and stick approach to secure the release of the remaining girls and bring succour to the parents. He accused some political leaders in Chibok of using the travail of the abducted girls and their parents for political gains.
“It is sad and regrettable that the same people who are accusing people of politicizing the Chibok girls issue are themselves guilty of same accusation,” he said.

Hope not lost
Prof Auwa Biu who heads the Borno State Outreach of the BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, the group leading campaigns for rescue of Chibok girls since 2015 said all hope is not lost.
“We still have confidence that the rest of the schoolgirls will be found. They must have escaped somewhere, we are still hoping and we will continue to pray for the remaining ones,” she said.
She noted that the video shown by the military during the Operation Lafiya Dole’s recent media briefing indicated that “the troops were careful in bombing targets at Sambisa, where we had assumed the girls were kept. So, we believe they are still alive somewhere.
http://sunnewsonline.com/chibok-schoolgirls-1000-days-in-captivity/

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Rather Say 1000days in Marriage.
Don't be surprised that many of them bv been confined to a high walled compound as a full time housewives, and if at all that they will step outside, they will appear in full black Niqab that u will not even be able to notice them .
Itz only those that they deemed less attractive that they exchanged with FG for Ransom.
#IWishThemHappyMarriedLife

Book haram might have abducted some girls oooo buh they didn't go to any school to abduct over 200 school girl.
This is the greatest scam in Nigeria.

ThinkSmarter:
Rather Say 1000days in Marriage.
Don't be surprised that many of them bv been confined to a high walled compound as a full time housewives, and if at all that they will step outside, they will appear in full black Niqab that u will not be able to even notice them .
#IWishThemHappyMarriedLife

Its time we accept the fact that not all the girls will be recovered some have already settled as wives in their various terroists husband's home while others are scattered all over the north and even in Niger republic.

Buhari sef

The chiboks girls thing is a scam it was just to bring down gej's admin

R. I. P to the puna of those girls.

So bad but wait how did they feed? May be they were fed with sex

May others be found

Do they really exist?

Kenechi1:
The chiboks girls thing is a scam it was just to bring down gej's admin

Na wa for you o! Before the chibok girls thing. Have they not been kidnapping people? Where all the hundreds of people released from Boko Haram Captivity come from? Before the Chibok Kidnappings, over 40 Boys were murdered in their Hostel. That was swept under the rug as usual. The Chibok Kidnappings would have been swept under the rug also were it not for international outcries.

The woman spearheading the #Bringbackourgirls campaign (Oby ezekwesili) has she been given an appointment after she has succeeded in using it to bring down GEJ's Govt? My People make una dey think and don't be blinded by sentiments whether political alignments or even ethnic sentiments.

one of them for fit be your Sister o!

Girls wey come out 4rm forest fresh pass all abokinesses in za northern villages...

Political crincum crancum

they ar already diahard Bokoharam

I just prayed for the country

Which way Naija?

Asiwaju9ja:


Na wa for you o! Before the chibok girls thing. Have they not been kidnapping people? Where all the hundreds of people released from Boko Haram Captivity come from? Before the Chibok Kidnappings, over 40 Boys were murdered in their Hostel. That was swept under the rug as usual. The Chibok Kidnappings would have been swept under the rug also were it not for international outcries.

The woman spearheading the #Bringbackourgirls campaign (Oby ezekwesili) has she been given an appointment after she has succeeded in using it to bring down GEJ's Govt? My People make una dey think and don't be blinded by sentiments whether political alignments or even ethnic sentiments.

one of them for fit be your Sister o!

oga, like it or not, there is nothing like chibok girls

Hope is lost already, the remaining surviving girls have been subjected to rape and abuse.

I thought they are in sambisa forest that no more in the hands of bokoharam

God will free dem
For doz shouting " its a scam", may ur family member be kidnapped and may God make pple tink its a Scam... Amen

No such thing as chibok girls.

Scam scam scam

THE CRIES OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL NEPOTISM TRAILS AFRICA AT LARGE.

You can do everything but never laugh at the cries of another.

Politics mixed with Religion is the worst thing that has happened to mankind.

MOTHER AFRICA SIGHS!

If parents finds it difficult to instill values into kids under their watch, how do you want the Chibok Girls to be reoriented?

Dear Chibok girls, live as if you are home wherever you may find yourselves because although man is born free, he has chains everywhere he goes.

WEEP MOTHER AFRICA!!

Kenechi1:
The chiboks girls thing is a scam it was just to bring down gej's admin

With your God given brain you think your thought was right?

Asiwaju9ja:


Na wa for you o! Before the chibok girls thing. Have they not been kidnapping people? Where all the hundreds of people released from Boko Haram Captivity come from? Before the Chibok Kidnappings, over 40 Boys were murdered in their Hostel. That was swept under the rug as usual. The Chibok Kidnappings would have been swept under the rug also were it not for international outcries.

The woman spearheading the #Bringbackourgirls


campaign (Oby ezekwesili) has she been given an appointment after she has succeeded in using it to bring down GEJ's Govt? My People make una dey think and don't be blinded by sentiments whether political alignments or even ethnic sentiments.

one of them for fit be your Sister o!

So you also believed this scam? SMH. Though Oby was not given an appointment but the other lady was rewarded bountifully with NPA job. However, if you insist the chibok hoax was not a scam, hold Governor Shettima of borno responsible not GEJ again

Emu4life:
God will free dem
For doz shouting " its a scam", may ur family member be kidnapped and may God make pple tink its a Scam... Amen

I pray the kidnappers of your brain release it IJN.