MY VOICE
“BRING BACK OUR GIRLS”
By: C. Harrison/May 16, 2014/12:46am
I just got home; turned on my television to watch the 5 O’ clock news and caught the most damming horrific news story unfolding, that 300 hundred Nigerian boarding school girls were kidnapped by a militants group which, apparently was happening for most of the day—playing-out on all media circuits and mediums. The first thing I thought of was how old were these girls and upon learning their ages 12-15, I was fuming. I immediately called a couple of people and vented—thereafter felt crushed, because I knew that black men in that part of the world have been doing this to girls in Africa for centuries. And to make matters worst, I had to think about all girls and boys who are being kidnapped on a daily basis around the globe.
On top of all that, we later learned that the Government of Nigeria, was in fact warned and knew in advance of the impending assault by the militant group Boko Haram and its leader Abubarkar Shekau and their en route to kidnapped those girls from their boarding school in northern Nigeria, on April 15. According to Amnesty International claimed, the military headquarter in Maiduguri was aware of the planned attack by around 7:00 PM on April 14.
Since then we have also learned that 50 of the girls had escaped of which some succumbed to snakebites, leaving 250 behind, believed to be divided into smaller groups to scar off detection. Moreover, a video tape of the girls was shown to the world–where the ring or head leader Abubakar Shekau, claimed he would instead of enslaving and putting the girls into black markets slavery and marrying them off, he would release them in exchange for Boko Militants, imprisoned in Nigeria. These girls are just babies, little girls.
Thus far, U. S. Secretary State, John Kerry, have said a team of law enforcement, intelligence, and military expert are on the ground in Nigeria, to help with the necessary or possible use of counter terrorism means. Also, on the ground in Nigeria are British diplomats and military officials, to help scour the vast northern terrain for the missing girls.
First Lady Michelle Obama, joined the international communities on the President’s weekly radio address, to plea herself, for the safe return of the girls. Nigerian protectors have also rallied to draw attention to the plight of the girls using the hashtag, “Bring Back Our Girls.” The hashtag have been used 1 million times to send the message out by the global community.
My vent is this, the audaciousness of these men are incredible. The smile on the leader’s face yet a concern look deep within the leaders eyes, showed that he doesn’t even know what he was truly doing, even though they had done it before; only he knew, that this time is different, they got caught and just maybe they wanted to be caught—maybe it was their time to show up themselves; but, the question is to what end–for the half chance that their imprisoned friends would come home. If the shoe was on the other foot and it was their daughter or sisters and mass gunmen or some militia group came and took their girls from their school—how would they feel or better yet what would their reaction be.
Another scenario would be, to look at who or what is motivating the group to kidnapped virgin girls or if money have exchanging hands, thus the reason to do it again because this was not their first time. These kidnappers have kidnapped girls from schools across Nigeria before. We are living in 2014, and the dark days of Africa, should be behind us. These saboteurs by their abduction of these girls have sacrilege from us and set off nerves. These men are neurotic. Hashtag, “Bring Back Our Girls,” sooner rather than later.
