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| Alleged leader of Islamist Sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau. (Screen capture from YouTube video) |
More than 200 girls were kidnapped from their school in northeastern Nigeria earlier this month. The region faces a long-running insurgency by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.
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More than two weeks after the kidnapping of hundreds of female students from their school in northeastern Nigeria, most are still missing. As frustration builds, Nigerians have organized large-scale protests to voice their outrage over the government's inability to protect civilians from a building insurgency.
In Abuja, the capital, and Lagos, hundreds of people turned out yesterday and today for rallies. Dubbed "A Million Woman March," participants held signs reading "Find our Daughters." Speaking at the march in Abuja, a former Nigerian cabinet member Obiageli Ezekwesili said the military had "no coherent search-and-rescue" plan, Agence France-Presse reports.
"If this happened anywhere else in the world, more than 200 girls kidnapped and no information for more than two weeks, the country would be brought to a standstill," Ms. Ezekwesili said.
The girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria on April 15. It's a region of the country that's been torn apart by a several-year insurgency by local Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, whose name translates to "Western education is forbidden."The girls were reportedly loaded onto trucks and motorbikes and taken into the forest. The military has so far had no success locating the girls, although as of Wednesday, an estimated 48 girls had escaped, according to a tally being kept by the Nigerian newspaper This Day.
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