Outrage, protests by Women of Peace spread over Nigeria seeking release of the abducted school girls by Boko Haram

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National protests which started in Lagos last week over inability of security agents to secure release of 234 female students abducted in Borno by Boko Haram terrorists two weeks ago, spread to Kano and Abuja, yesterday, just as Senate President, David Mark will lead 21 other senators to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan this evening to push for full scale military action to rescue the girls.In Kano, various women and civil society groups staged a protest to Government House in Kano, demanding the immediate release of the girls. In Abuja, women from various civil society organisations (CSOs) defied a downpour to protest the delay in securing the release of the 234 abducted schoolgirls by insurgents. The women were also at the National Assembly to seek intervention from the lawmakers in the efforts to rescue the girls.
The women, who wept inconsolably, before the Senate President, David Mark, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal and Emeka Ihedioha, appealed to the Federal Government to deploy everything necessary in its military arsenal to rescue the innocent girls. Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesilli, one of the protest leaders and a former World Bank Vice-President, urged the government to respond pro-actively by making sure the girls were released from their captors safe in no time.