Parents of abducted Nigerian girls desperate for U.N. to intervene
- 9 years ago
Hope in finding the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria is not lost... entirely.
While they've lost faith in the Nigerian government's ability to help them find their girls, they're now appealing to the U.N.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESMAN OF CHIBOK COMMUNITY IN ABUJA, DAUDA ILLIYA, SAYING:
"We will engage the U.N., we will also write letters to the United Nations and protest this neglect and nonchalance."
Fifty of the 270 abducted girls managed to escape, but the fate of the others, is unknown.
One man who hasn't seen two his kidnapped girls since they disappeared eight months ago, blames the government.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FATHER OF TWO ABDUCTED GIRLS, REVEREND ENOCH MARK, SAYING:
"If the government cannot take action, we are asking for the United Nations to come in and help us, or if the United Nations reject us, we just don't know what to do."
The Boko Haram jihadist group is notorious for comm
While they've lost faith in the Nigerian government's ability to help them find their girls, they're now appealing to the U.N.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESMAN OF CHIBOK COMMUNITY IN ABUJA, DAUDA ILLIYA, SAYING:
"We will engage the U.N., we will also write letters to the United Nations and protest this neglect and nonchalance."
Fifty of the 270 abducted girls managed to escape, but the fate of the others, is unknown.
One man who hasn't seen two his kidnapped girls since they disappeared eight months ago, blames the government.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FATHER OF TWO ABDUCTED GIRLS, REVEREND ENOCH MARK, SAYING:
"If the government cannot take action, we are asking for the United Nations to come in and help us, or if the United Nations reject us, we just don't know what to do."
The Boko Haram jihadist group is notorious for comm