According to reports, some of the Dapchi girls have been released. While giving kudos to those responsible for their release, I just thought we should state some obvious facts.
Is it not embarrassing that we don’t know how many girls have been released so far? What we first heard was 105 girls released while five were said to have unfortunately lost their lives.
We are now being told that only seventy-six were released.
If it’s true that government was involved in the negotiations before the girls were released, I would have thought security agents could have gathered the girls immediately their abductors had gone.
Could we be saying the girls were allowed to go without any debriefing? Is it right to release the girls without giving them proper medical examination? I’m sure quite a few of them would need medical treatment.
Do we know if they had been sexually harassed? If true, do we know the HIV status of those animals who harassed them? Let’s even agree that they are HIV negative, what about other sexually transmitted diseases? Is any of them pregnant?
In any case, I want to believe that most of them will be nothing other than emotional wrecks. Of course, after having gone through the trauma of abduction and what have you! Personally, I would have wanted the girls to be given all the works, as far as medical treatment is concerned.
That said, I want to visualize the scene at Dapchi when some of the girls were dropped off. Would it not have led to a scramble given the fact that not all of them were lucky to have been released.
We empathise with those whose children were nowhere to be found.
Again, we congratulate those who were involved in the release of the girls. Let’s hope such embarrassing things will not recur.
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