The #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy group will today, in 3 continents, start a three-day event to mark the fifth anniversary of the Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction by Boko Haram.
276 schoolgirls were abducted from Government girls secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, on the night of april 14, 2014, making Sunday, april 14 the 5th anniversary of the event.
In a statement made available to NE yesterday, the #BringBackOurGirls said it’ll host cooccurring events in Abuja, London, new york and Washington DC “to mark this sad day of remembrance.”
BBOG said it would “mark the fifth year of captivity for 112 Chibok girls by gathering with members of the Chibok community and members of BBOG from all over Lagos to prompt our government and the world that they are still missing…”
It will start off today’s event in Lagos with a march from Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi at 11am.
Tomorrow, from 12 – 2pm, there will be a BBOG Sit out at Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi and a BBOG Sit out at 64, Adewale Adenuga Street, Orilowo bus stop via Binta International school, Ejigbo, Lagos. The activities will come to a climax on Sunday, april 14 with a religious vigil at Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi between 5pm and 7pm.
Sunday in London, a panel of discussants will take into account the subject, #BlackLivesMatter and the #BringBackOurGirls movement: on-line struggle for offline justice.
This will hold between 4pm and 7pm at The africa Centre, 66 great Suffolk Street, London SE1 0BL.
In New York, the event is going to be marked marked with an overnight vigil at the Nigerian Embassy from 10pm on Sunday, april 14 and 10am on monday, April 15.
The organisers aforesaid they would not become softened in their advocacy and demands for the rescue of the country’s college children and fellow citizens from captivity.
“We demand: justice for the slain, conveyance and rehabilitation for individuals displaced by the violence, safe faculties, the launch of the National Missing Persons Register; and correct welfare, instrumentation and support for officers and families of our police and militia,” the organisers same.
