Children’s Day anniversary, Senate pleaded Boko Haram to release the Chibok girls.

Against the backdrop of the Children’s Day
anniversary, Senate yesterday pleaded with
Boko Haram to release the abducted Chibok
girls.
Senate President David Mark yesterday
called for prayers for the survival of the
Nigerian child whom he described as

ironically becoming an endangered species in
the hands of abductors and kidnappers.
He said the situation called for sober
reflection on the way forward as he could not
rationalise why the children, who represented
the future, suddenly became the target of evil
men in the country.
In a goodwill message to mark the Children’s
Day, Mark lamented the continued abduction
of over 200 girls from Government Girls’
Secondary School in Borno State.
“In spite of the outcry across the world on
the abduction of the Chibok girls, their
captors remain adamant. This is inhuman,
barbaric, insane and condemnable by all
right-thinking members of the human race,”
he said.
Mark noted: “As parents or guardians, we
owe the children care and protection. How do
we explain to generations yet unborn that our
girls abducted from their school by unknown
persons are still being held more than one
month after? This is a challenge to all of us.
We cannot fail these children. All of us must
put on our thinking caps and strategise on
the way out.”
He urged Nigerians to put aside religious,
political or ethnic considerations and adorn
the jersey of one united Nigeria in the battle
against insurgents, adding: “With the
cooperation and collective will of all of us, we
shall overcome.”
Also speaking just before commencement of
legislative business on Tuesday, Senate
Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, wished Nigerian
children a happy anniversary and seized the
occasion to plead with Boko Haram to
release the girls. The news source sun.