Parents Of Abducted Girls Vow To Confront Boko Haram, Defy Threat

Grieving parents of female students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State have vowed to go into the Sambisa forests to search for their daughters despite threats by Boko Haram insurgents to kill the children should the search continue.

Speaking to journalist, one of the parents, Malam Bitrus Audu, aged 49, called on the government to try and track down the people behind the abduction.

"Don't let our daughters’ vision be aborted by wicked and heartless people," he said.
234 female pupils were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno during a night raid by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on April 14.

The whereabouts of the abducted girls is still unknown, though they are believed to be held hostage at Sambisa Forest where most of the deadly attacks of the terrorist sect are launched from.

The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has however promised that the state government would do its utmost to rescue the abducted girls.

He said a total of 47 girls had escaped from the den of the insurgents while others where still missing.