FG should protect girl-child in north:B’Haram abducts 20 more girls in Borno

I was sad to hear that the dreaded  Boko Haram sect has once again abducted over 20 girls in Lassa, a town in Borno State. I wondered where their parents were when these girls were kidnapped.

We all know that this keeps happening, why are parents not protecting their girl-child? 

Hummm...what can the hapless parents do?

The story was in the Punch Newspapers today. It states that the sect killed many people, mostly old men and women, before swooping on the girls. 

I can’t even begin to imagine the fate that would befall those girls. I can’t even imagine what their mothers are going through right now.

Perhaps it would be better if girls in these war-zone northern parts are taken to their cousins living far from the torn areas.

It would also be good if the government makes alternative safe-house plans for girls in these areas. Government  could house them in safe areas and ensure they go to school.

Parents, people in the north are treated like they don’t have a government in place in Nigeria leaders who  should look out for them. But do we have a government.

Punch states: “Ibrahim, who said he survived the attack, revealed that the insurgents had been advancing toward Lassa since late November but had met stiff resistance from local fighters until Wednesday.

He said the insurgents attacked the town last Wednesday with a variety of heavy weaponry, including tanks and explosives. They were finally able to overwhelm the local opposition and capture the town.

“They burnt almost half of the town before they left. Those of us who were lucky fled, but they massacred aged ones and the younger men they could catch,” the source stated.

He said the town fell to the insurgents because the residents’ appeals to security agencies to deploy more troops and to step up land and air operations were ignored.

“That’s why the town is now in the hands of Boko Haram,” he said.

A senior military officer attached to the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army based in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, confirmed that the military was aware of the development in Lassa.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government has said that Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, has been thrown into complete blackout as a result of the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

Government said the major power substation that supplied electricity to the city had been blown off by the sect on more than one occasion.