Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili
has urged US President, Barack Obama to do
more to bring back the missing Chibok girls.
Ezekwesili stated this while attending the TIME
100 Gala in New York City on Tuesday, April
21, 2015.
The #BringbackOurGirls activist was recently
named as one of TIME’s most influential
people in the world.
“If he [Obama] could get Osama bin Laden, he
could get our girls,” Ezekwesili said.
“It is time for someone as powerful as Barack
Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his
own daughters.These girls are a symbol of our
own message to girls, that they should be
educated, that we would go beyond the call of
duty for you,” she added.
Ezekwesili also lamented that we live in a
world where “a child is forced to choose
between being alive and being educated.”
The Chibok girls were abducted on April 14,
2014, over a year ago, by Boko Haram
insurgents.
Obama had said, when asked about the girls
during a recent interview, that the Nigerian
government has proved ineffective against the
terrorist sect.
Other Nigerians who were named among the
TIME 100 are President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari, bestselling author, Chimamanda
Adichie and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar
Shekau.

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