According to punch's report...
Hundreds of women on Sunday staged a peaceful
protest in Accra, Ghana, against the kidnap of over 200 students of Government
Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, by Boko Haram.
The women marched through some major streets of
Accra and ended at the Nigerian High Commissioner’s premises where a petition
signed by over 300 people was presented to the High Commissioner.
The protesters carried placards with various
inscriptions, and chanted solidarity songs to bring back the kidnapped girls.
Some of the inscriptions read, “Bring back our
girls,” “Release the girls now,’’ “We want action now.”
Eugenia Menson, Chief Executive Officer, Young
Educators Foundation, who read the petition on behalf of the group, said there
was the need to respect the right of the girls.
She said the abducted girls had the fundamental
human rights to be educated, and they had the inalienable right to be girls.
Menson urged the Nigerian Government to act
swiftly.
She said the protesters were just a
representative of the swelling voices of Ghanaians and other people round the
world who believe that “any extra second we spend not finding our girls was one
second too many.”
Menson also urged the High Commissioner to press
upon the Nigerian government to do everything possible within its power to
bring back the girls.
His Excellency Ademola Onafonoka, Nigerian High
Commissioner to Ghana, assured the group that the Federal Government was
working tirelessly to bring back the girls.
“Let me thank you for your out pouring of
emotions, and solidarity for your empathy.
“I am assuring you as a father that our daughters
will be found and brought back to all of us alive and well,’’ he said.
The Chibok schoolgirls, aged between 16 and 18
years, were abducted by Boko Haram, last month.
