Sixty-five parents of the abducted Chibok school girls have
reportedly been detained by soldiers while they were on their way to
Abuja from Borno to participate in the protest of the BringBackoOurGirls
(BBOG) movement scheduled for Thursday, January 14.
Tunji Olanrewaju, BBOG spokesman and a member of strategic team, who spoke with TheCable, said the 65 parents were stopped at Askira, near Chibok, in Borno state by soldiers acting on “orders from above.”
He said: “Over 120 of them (Chibok parents) were supposed to come for the march on Thursday. So they were leaving Chibok this morning because it is a two-day trip. They set out at 7a.m. – about 64 or 65 of them – in several buses, but they were stopped at Askira by soldiers. Initially, they said the order was from Maiduguri, but later they said it was from above.”
According to Olanrewaju, the first batch of the Chibok parents had already left for Abuja before the 65 parents were stopped.
Tunji Olanrewaju, BBOG spokesman and a member of strategic team, who spoke with TheCable, said the 65 parents were stopped at Askira, near Chibok, in Borno state by soldiers acting on “orders from above.”
He said: “Over 120 of them (Chibok parents) were supposed to come for the march on Thursday. So they were leaving Chibok this morning because it is a two-day trip. They set out at 7a.m. – about 64 or 65 of them – in several buses, but they were stopped at Askira by soldiers. Initially, they said the order was from Maiduguri, but later they said it was from above.”
According to Olanrewaju, the first batch of the Chibok parents had already left for Abuja before the 65 parents were stopped.
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