BBOG launches countdown to Chibok girls’ rescue

Following assurances by the Federal Government that it would battle the Boko Haram insurgency to a standstill in six weeks, the #BringBackOurGirls coalition on Saturday in Abuja launched a six-week countdown to the rescue of the 219 Chibok school girls in Boko Haram captivity and an end to terrorism in the country.

The group said the launch date marked 10 months since the abduction of 276 Chibok girls from their school dormitory by the terrorist group.

The BBOG spokesman, Rotimi Olawale, in a statement said the movement has, over the past months, sustained its advocacy, including daily sit-outs in Abuja and regular sit-outs in Lagos and Ibadan as well as several other protests held across the world.

It noted that assurances by the FG that the girls would be rescued alive very soon and reports in the media that some of the girls were sighted as recent as November last year, offers a ray of hope that if urgent actions were taken, the girls would be rescued alive.

The group insisted that it would continue to pursue its singular purpose of ensuring the safe returns of the chibok girls and all other abducted Nigerians by the deadly sect.

According to the BBOG, the countdown will help them monitor the activities of the multinational forces toward the eradication of the insurgents and the rescue of the Chibok girls from their captors.