We'll Be Happy To Get Our Daughters' Corpses' - Chibok Parents Ready To Storm Sambisa

Parents of the abducted Chibok schools girls and other residents of the community have said they are prepared die in Sambisa forest for the rescue of the girls.


The distraught parents and residents who are still mourning the loss of their children, who have been missing for close to 3 months, after they were abducted in a night raid by Boko Haram, said they are left with no other option but to storm the forest and get their girls back.

The parents who disclosed this to Leadership in Maiduguri yesterday said, they would be happy to receive the corpses of their daughters for decent burial than for them to remain in Boko Haram's captivity without any knowledge of what they are passing through.


However, the Borno State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Titus Pona, explained that the people have already started mobilising themselves to go in search of the girls inside Sambisa Forest as they feel the government is not doing enough to rescue the girls, but that stakeholders in the area have been pleading with them not to embark on such a deadly mission.

He added that they don't for how long they would be able to prevent them from doing so.

Pona said, "We went round to see some of the parents and their families; it was a very pathetic sight; some of them were crying and asking that they would be happy to receive the corpses of their daughters so that they can bury them and mourn them decently, than having them out there in the bush, without knowing what is happening to them."


The Presidential fact-finding committee on the abduction of the school girls in Chibok, Borno State had in June, submitted their report to President Goodluck Jonathan. Their report confirmed that the actual number of girls abducted was 276, out of which 219 are still missing as about 57 of them had escaped and had  since been reunited with their family.


Source:  Leadership