Members of the United States Congress on Tuesday said they had yet to give up on the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls.

The lawmakers serving at the lower chamber of the US Congress flayed the Federal Government’s handling of the efforts to rescue the girls and urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intensify the search operations.

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, from the 24th District of Florida, particularly took a swipe at the President for allegedly not taking leadership in finding and bringing back thegirls to their distraught families.

Wilson, a former elementary school principal and school board member, wrote on her Twitter page that the US Congress would not let the whole world rest until each of the Chibok girls wasfound.

The member of the Democratic Party, who serves on the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, said PresidentJonathan and all well-meaning world leaders “need to bring back the future leaders of Nigeria!”

Wilson stated that the kidnapped Chibok girls “are our girls” adding that the abduction of the young girls who are pursuing an education is “unconscionable and should not be tolerated.”

According to her, the leadership of the US Congress was looking forward to “action” from President Jonathan, adding that “We want action, and we want it now!”

She said, “What has President Jonathan done lately to bring back our girls? Why must these girls continue to suffer? I am calling on President Jonathan to step up as a leader of a growing world power and bring back our girls .

“Our girls are priceless, they cannot be bought. Girls should not have to risk their lives to get an education. We cannot allow the Nigerian girls’story to fade away. Girls should be treated with respect and have the right to freely pursue education without fear.

“Only God knows the pain and suffering being endured by the families of these girls. No matter how many days go by, we will not rest until our girls are home. We have got to always protect our children across all cultures. These girls are future doctors, lawyers, and CEOs.”

Also, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, who represents Texas’ 18th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, wrote on Twitter that American lawmakers would continue to voice their concerns over the girls’ whereabouts until “they are rescued.”

She said the US Congressmen and women would not quit the campaign until all the girls were brought back by the Federal Government to safety.

She lauded Nigerians who have been mounting pressure on the government and asked them to keep up the support to find the girls and not “let the world forget until every girl is found.”

Jackson-Lee stated that the terror being unleashed by the Boko Haram insurgent group should not be seen as “simply a matter of social justice, but a matter of national security.”

“No, we have not forgotten. We will continue to demand that the Nigerian government bring back our girls. Brutality like Boko Haram that is unchecked and unpunished poses a threat to innocent people everywhere. We call for the immediate rescue of the Nigerian girls. We must bring back our girls! We are not going away. We will not be silenced until they are rescued,” Jackson-Lee stated.

Chairman of the US Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver, lamented that families of the girls were living “the lowest and most egregious form of violation of their human rights.”

According to the congressman representing Missouri’s Fifth District in the lower chamber of the US Congress, the way and manner the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, referred to the girls as slaves and declared his intention to sell them like a commodity on the market is unsettling.

Asking the Federal Government to prioritise the girls’ freedom, Cleaver stated on Twitter that being a girl in Nigeria “should not be a curse.”

Nigerian girls, he argued, had the right to be free and live without fear, adding that schoolgirls should not be forced to risk their lives to get educated.

Cleaver said, “Terrorist groups like BokoHaram add hooliganism to a life of terror. Let’s end this nightmare and bring back our girls. We are not going away. We will not be silenced.

“Today is the day to bring back our girls! Let’s show the girls that we love them and we will make sure they return safely to their families. Attacking and abducting girls who are pursuing an education must not be tolerated.

“All our girls wanted was to grow and learn. We call for the immediate rescue of the Nigerian girls. Our girls are still not back. We will continue to demand that the Nigerian government bring back our girls.”


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Didn't ISIS just take over 80% of the Iraq they were occupying?

Ikengawo: Didn't ISIS just take over 80% of the Iraq they were occupying?

You mean Iraq was under US occupation when ISIS took over parts of Iraq?

Is this ignorance or just a reflection of the lousy education you received?

tell them i said they sould mind there own Us,my GEJ is doing the best he can do at ever point

US should shut up and take care of the mess they orchesrated in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Mexico and so on and so forth.... We are going to get our girls back but without US input....We are not Syria... Or one of those countries I mentioned earlier....

aresa:

You mean Iraq was under US occupation when ISIS took over parts of Iraq?

Is this ignorance or just a reflection of the lousy education you received?

Obviously a reflection of the kind of Education that'll make his President have the guts to declare to the world that he's a PhD holder and his wife, a MSc degree holder in Biology, when neither of them can string together a single, complete, coherent sentence in english.

ISpiksDaTroof:

Obviously a reflection of the kind of Education that'll make his President have the guts to declare to the world that he's a PhD holder and his wife, a MSc degree holder in Biology, when neither of them can string together a single, complete, coherent sentence in english.

What has english got to do with the topic

With all the big big grammar abi na english wey you sabi speak, na which position you don hold before

Some peeps sha...

fitzmayowa:

What has english got to do with the topic

With all the big big grammar abi na english wey you sabi speak, na which position you don hold before

Some peeps sha...

Well, Ive held positions in both your country and mine that enabled me be on bodies drafting policies that affected your life, that of your parents and which will no doubt affect those of your children--- and probably their children too.

ISpiksDaTroof:

Well, Ive held positions in both your country and mine that enabled me be on bodies drafting policies that affected your life, that of your parents and which will no doubt affect those of your children--- and probably their children too.

Ok sir Mr position...what are the policies that you drafted that has affected us positively

And which body/bodies might that be

Remember everyone is a billionaire/policy maker/VIP on a facelss forum...

anago18:

your brain is definitely running a t-9 delay. no be only hasn't ended na hashtag ended.

so your resident babalowo told you that the US has ended it's occupation of Iraq?

ISpiksDaTroof:

Well, Ive held positions in both your country and mine that enabled me be on bodies drafting policies that affected your life, that of your parents and which will no doubt affect those of your children--- and probably their children too.

Obviously a supporter of APC

if you are really educated like you claim, you wouldn't have put those words down. All you need in sciences is just the ability to communicate. From your post you sound like someone that lacks quality education, i suggest you go back to your books, you will definitely need to learn to read between lines.

ISpiksDaTroof:

Obviously a reflection of the kind of Education that'll make his President have the guts to declare to the world that he's a PhD holder and his wife, a MSc degree holder in Biology, when neither of them can string together a single, complete, coherent sentence in english.

Talk is cheap otherwise how come the US, China, UK, France can't find the girls? Is it because no girl is missing?

When those girls were suffering in harsh learning environment, US didn't care to know them, why all these sudden show of affection.

This whole show is staged by the US, Jonathan should stop making any attempt to be using US media to do his PR, as they are all in a grand conspiracy to rubbish him.

CCN is working for the same people that is sponsoring conflicts around the Africa

See as America carry our matter for head? Even our own legislators both in Senate and House of Reps who are supposed to voice out about the chiibok matter have not said anything reasonable concerning the issue. The US congress is doing their job for them.

What a shame!!

ITbomb: When those girls were suffering in harsh learning environment, US didn't care to know them, why all these sudden show of affection.

This whole show is staged by the US, Jonathan should stop making any attempt to be using US media to do his PR, as they are all in a grand conspiracy to rubbish him.

CCN is working for the same people that is sponsoring conflicts around the Africa

So, US should come earlier to build standard classrooms for them so that they wouldn't be learning in a "harsh environment"?

Mogidi: Talk is cheap otherwise how come the US, China, UK, France can't find the girls? Is it because no girl is missing?

Because your president was too egotistical to accept the offers to help from the counties you mentioned until it was too late to salvage the situation.

berem:

as in I tire for the guy no be small, one of my family friend serve as a nurse to the us marines in iraq. after the pullout he was transfered to Afghanistan. now he has retired and in Nigeria because of the fast upcoming pullout in Afghanistan. the dude don make bar no be small.

authority2006: So, US should come earlier to build standard classrooms for them so that they wouldn't be learning in a "harsh environment"?

They didn't build it, they were not expected to build it, and they should stop crying more than the bereaved.

It is our soldiers that are being killed in Borno not theirs. If they can't tidy up their mess in Iraq, let them forever keep quiet and bow their heads in shame as the ISIS is overrunning their forces.

Their anger is that we refused them unrestricted access to our territory to extend their conquest

AMERICANS SHOULD MIND THEIR BUSINESS

dlox147: if you are really educated like you claim, you wouldn't have put those words down. All you need in sciences is just the ability to communicate. From your post you sound like someone that lacks quality education, i suggest you go back to your books, you will definitely need to learn to read between lines.

Unfortunately, the 2 he mentioned knows nothing about any ability to communicate, their only ability is embarrassing Nigerians every time they open their mouth.

They are just like many uneducated Nigerians walking out of our higher institutions with fake and worthless degrees that doesn't connect with worldly realities and we see this every time they open their ignorant, uneducated and illiterate mouth...

[b]My People,
It's very funny the way people take everything that emanates from America very seriously.
Some congresswoman that probably knows close to nothing about Nigeria or interntional politics, outside the primary school she used to teach, makes some disrespectful statement about our president and people are clapping for her. Well I dont entiremy blame people because our president doesnt know how to handle his position in most cases, thereby bringing disrespect and disrepute to his office and to us Nigerians.

But be that as it may, it's high time these U.S congressmen or senators or whatever they are learn how to mind their business if they cant show respect to whom respect is due.

America has completely messed up Iraq. There was no single weapon of mass destruction as they claimed as reason for invaiding a once peaceful Iraq with a dictator Sadam Hussein who held the country firmly together. Today Hussein is deposed and long dead, Iraq has "democracy". So are Iraqis better off now than before that Bushman of America came to destroy their country? Hell No. Iraq is in a total mess and is almost completely turn apart today by civil war. Who messed up Iraq? Answer = USA. Who is messing up Afghanistan? Answer = USA.
Has the Malaysian plane been found? Answer= No. The US and all the world powers that get o.rg.asm in castigating our president are already here in the North looking & searching for the Chibok girls. If they have not been able to find the girls with all their acclaimed sophistication, THEN THEY SHOULD SHUT UP AND CONTINUE SEARCHING. FOR THEY ARE AS INCOMPETENT and & AS CLUELESS AS THE JONATHAN THEY FIND PLEASURE IN CASTIGATING.[/b]

fitzmayowa:


Ok sir Mr position...what are the policies that you drafted that has affected us positively

And which body/bodies might that be

Remember everyone is a billionaire/policy maker/VIP on a facelss forum...

Youre still alive and breathing in Africa, aint ya?

Exactly!

ITbomb: When those girls were suffering in harsh learning environment, US didn't care to know them, why all these sudden show of affection.

This whole show is staged by the US, Jonathan should stop making any attempt to be using US media to do his PR, as they are all in a grand conspiracy to rubbish him.

CCN is working for the same people that is sponsoring conflicts around the Africa

Bros abeg use your head small naw! #noOffience.. Na U.S go come build modern schools with air condition classrooms for you? What happened to monies budgeted for education by Federal, State and Local governments? They are only concerned now because terrorism is a global fight not a one nation fight.. Ah!