Policemen
on Wednesday, 24th December, disrupted the protest
organized by #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, movement as they distributed fliers
to motorists to remind them of the plight of the 219 Chibok girls still in Boko
Haram captivity.
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File:
Police block supporters of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, who ask for the
release
of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, from
marching to
the president’s official residence in the Nigerian capital Abuja
on
October 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO
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The
policemen numbering about 20 barricaded the Shehu Shagari Way, Abuja with their
vehicles at the junction to the Presidential Villa, a move that enraged
some of the activists.
The coalition
members had initially walked to the National Assembly gate where they condemned
the lawmakers for proceeding on Christmas holidays while the abducted girls are
suffering in captivity.
According
to one of the Co-coordinators of the group, Oby Ezekwesili, “The lawmakers
should be ashamed of themselves for going on break while the Chibok girls
are with wicked men in the bush.”
After
spending a few minutes, the group left and as they walked towards the
Presidential Villa junction, the policemen in four vehicles quickly drove to
the junction and blocked it, to prevent the protesters from heading that way.
This
infuriated the #BBOG members, but the protesters were not discontinued as they
shared out fliers to motorists.
A member,
Bukky Shonibare, who just returned from delivering relief materials to
Internally Displaced Persons in Yola, Adamawa State, noted that 98 per cent of
the IDPs are not living in government but with private families.
She
explained that the displaced persons were suffering, adding that most of them
lacked food, shelter and clothing.
“Only
6,500 IDPs are living in government camps, the rest, about 500,000 people are
staying with private families in Yola and they are really suffering. We took
relief materials to them and they were just crying, they have no clothes, no
blankets, some of them sleep on bare ground.
“What
happened to the billions raised for the Victim Support Fund? What happened to
the Victim Support Fund?
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