Nigerian Troops Stop, Detain 65 Chibok Girls' Parents Travelling From Borno To Abuja For Protest

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Soldiers have detained 65 parents of the abducted Chibok girls who were on their way to Abuja from Borno to participate in the protest of the BringBackoOurGirls (BBOG) movement scheduled for tomorrow.
 
According to Tunji Olanrewaju, a member of the BBOG strategic team and spokesman, who spoke with TheCable, the 65 parents were stopped at Askira, near Chibok, in Borno State by soldiers acting on “orders from above.”
 
 
 
 
He said: “Over 120 of them (Chibok parents) were supposed to come for the march on Thursday.  So they were leaving Chibok this morning because it is a two-day trip. They set out at 7a.m.  – about 64 or 65 of them – in several buses, but they were stopped at Askira by soldiers,” Olarenwaju explained.
 
 
“Initially, they said the order was from Maiduguri, but later they said it was from above.”
 
He added that a first batch of the Chibok parents had already left for Abuja before the 65 parents were stopped.
 
When the army spokesman Col. Sani Usman, was contacted for comment on the matter, he directed that the Director of Defence Information,  Brig-Gen. Rabe Abubakar who did not respond to calls to his phone be reached.
 
The BBOG citizen movement has scheduled tomorrow to re-engage with President Muhammadu Buhari on the reason why 219 Chibok schoolgirls have remained in captivity despite his promise to rescue them.
 
This will be the group’s second “engagement” with the president. The first was in July 2015, two months after he was sworn in.
 
 
 
 
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