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That the one hundred and ten schoolgirls from Dapchi, a sleepy town in Yobe State of Northern Nigeria were kidnapped last Monday is no longer news. I can not help thinking of which state those poor girls will be in now.
Are they being fed? Are they being clothed? At least, I know they couldn’t have taken extra clothes. A kidnap is definitely not a Tea Party.
In which state of health are they? Being girls, some of them might be going through their monthly periods. Do they have access to sanitary towels? When in that state, girls need to take extra care of their states of cleanliness. Are they doing that?
Are they not likely to be sexually harassed? Will they not be forcefully married off?
Will their religious preferences not be tampered with?
What about their parents? Are their hopes of the girls being freed not turning to frustrations? Parents who send their girl children to school in Northern Nigeria are the liberated ones who have seen the light. Won’t they be thinking it would have been better for them not to have sent their girls to school?
Something seems not to be adding up here. I was made to understand the Boko Haram terrorists are being run out of town. How come they could still be in a position to kidnap a whopping one hundred and ten schoolgirls?
Yet, I understand the government is inviting Nigerians abroad to come back home since, according to them, Nigeria has no problem with security, among other things.
Questions, questions and questions.
I don’t seem to have a single answer.
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