Chibok: A forgotten Story.

Do you have kids? Are you a mother or a father to someone? Do you have a girl? I mean a daughter. Do you love her? Does she love you too? Then how will your life turn if that daughter of yours goes to school... then gets kidnapped alongside nearly 300 other girls. Now on the long run, you hear that some girls escaped, and you get a bit elated, hoping your girl is one of them, but she is not. How would you feel? Devastated. You may even die.
On the night of 15th April, 2014, members of the terrorist group Boko Haram stormed an all girls school in chibok and abducted students preparing for their SSCE. It was news then, really big news. The whole country was in turmoil, everybody was security conscious, even the then first lady Dame Patience Jonathan gave the countrg some comic relief by crying on national TV, bringing about the famous "There is God ooo". It seemed the government of Goodluck Jonathan had nothing to say egen qfter international bodies condemned the abduction. The government remained mute. Oby Ezekwesili could not take it, thus #BringBackOurGirls came about. They pressured the weak government but nothing happened.
APC used Chibok as one of their election winning propaganda, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari said it clear to us that under him, the girls will be brought out, so desperate Nigerians voted him in. One question please, are the girls back?
Now that this new government has come with its countless flaws, we barely remember the promise. Yes, insurgency is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Yes, the bombings have reduced and people are living in tranquility. But are the girls back?
In a few days, it will be 2 years since those girls were kidnapped, and somebody used their sad situation as propaganda to win elections just to end up being more mute than Goodluck Jonathan. I do not know if Oby Ezekwesili has parked up and gone home but i do know that if we do not speak out for those girls, nobody will. The country now sees the kidnapping as one of those horrible things that happened to Nigeria because who cares about the girls when fuel is 200/L? When the cost of living is lugubrious. This #Change issue did not give us what we expected. I do hope by 2019, the country will vote in somebody who will positively change the coutry. Now please President Muhammadu Buhari, please #BringBackOurGirls