Concerned Parents of Chibok Girls have written to President Bola Tinubu to help facilitate the release of 92 abducted girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity.
The parents congratulated Tinubu and Kashim Shettima on their assumption of office as president and vice president of Nigeria respectively.
The plea was contained in a letter issued on behalf of Concerned Parents of Chibok Girls by Yana Galang (mother to Rifkatu Galang still in captivity) and Zanna Lawan (father to Aisha Lawan still in captivity).
In the letter, the parents begged Tinubu to help them secure the release of the remaining girls still in captivity, saying that “Mr. President, as you are well aware, our predicament started in 2014 when 276 of our daughters from Chibok Government Secondary School were abducted.
“It has been years of pain and agony for us and we are disheartened that nine years later and a few months before the end of the immediate past administration, 92 of these girls remain in Boko Haram captivity, subjected to unimaginable ordeal and abuse at the hands of their captors.”
They said in Tinubu’s inaugural speech, despite not making a direct pledge particularly regarding their plight in Chibok, the president pledged to make security a top priority.
“It is on this premise therefore, we the concerned parents of Chibok humbly seek Your Excellency’s attention to once again beam a searchlight to the recovery of the remaining 92 of our kidnapped daughters,” the parents said.
The parents noted that former president Muhammadu Buhari in his own inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, said his administration could not claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing Chibok girls.
