A Chibok girl who
escaped from the grasp of Boko Haram insurgents has urged the world not to
forget her friends who are yet to be rescued.
Speaking under the pseudonym – Sa’a – she made the plea during the
Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai.
“These girls are human beings, not something
that we can forget about,” BBC quotes her as
saying.
Sa’s said the “world has to do something” about the rescue of her
friends.
“How would you feel if your daughter or wife was missing? Not one
day or two, but three years. It’s very painful,” she said.
“I remember those girls, but their dreams are now no more.”
Sa’a said she was lucky to jump out the back of a truck and
escape with a friend after the Boko Haram insurgents had captured them.
After hiding overnight, a shepherd assisted them to a safe place,
she said.
“I thought I was going to die that night,” Sa’a recounted.
By April, it would have been three years since over 270 girls
were abducted from Chibok secondary school, in Borno state.
Although 21 of the girls were released in October 2016, not
less than 195 remain unaccounted for.
-The Cable
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