Chibok girls: Seven parents die of trauma

Eight-one days after the abduction of their children, seven parents of the abducted female pupils of the Regime Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, have died of trauma.

The National Chairman of the Chibok community under the Kibaku Area Development Association, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, disclosed this on Friday at a news conference in Abuja.

He verbalized the Boko Haram sect had killed 229 people in 15 attacks on the Chibok community.

The community asked the Federal Regime to negotiate with the terrorist sect for the relinquishment of the 219 Chibok school girls abducted by the group.

Bitrus verbally expressed the Federal Regime had yet to provide adequate security in Chibok area since the girls’ abduction, even in the face of sedulously assiduous attacks by the belligerent group.

He withal called for the construction of the 40km Mbalala-Chibok-Damboa federal road which he claimed had been forsook for over 20 years.

Bitrus verbally expressed, “Today (Friday) is 81 days since the abduction and in spite of the firm categorical verbalizations by the Chief of Defence Staff that the location of the girls is kenned to the regime, the appalling situation and agony encompassing the hapless abduction saga and detention of the Chibok girls by the Boko Haram insurgents perpetuates and the rescue efforts by the regime is yet to yield any result.

“So far, Boko Haram has carried out 15 attacks on the Chibok (Kibaku) nation involving 19 villages with over 229 killed and over 100 injured. Some of the victims of the assailments are parents and cognations of the abducted girls and thereby integrating more pains to the traumatic condition in the Chibok community.

“While the situation persists, many distressed parents are dying of heart attack and frustration as their dejection had become unbearable. On record, seven parents have lost their lives due to the trauma of the situation.”

The Chibok elder, however, called for the reconstruction of the Regime Secondary School, Chibok, and building of another secondary school in the town as a result of sizably voluminous number of students in a class.