Women to stage one-million march in Abuja over abducted girls

Nigerian women would on Wednesday April 30th
in Abuja stage a one-million-women march tagged "Free our girls" to
press for the release of the schoolgirls that were abducted from Girls
Government college in Chibok, Borno state on Monday April 14th.

The call for the protest was made during an emergency
meeting put together by the Borno state first lady, Hajia Nana Kashim Shettima, yesterday. Coordinator of the protest Prof. Hauwa Abdu Biu said the march is expected to involve every woman in the
country.

"The last time, we were in black but this time around
the colour for the Abuja rally is red; so we should all be prepared and
mobilize ourselves for the rally”, she said

Earlier
on at the meeting, the first lady amids sobs called on all
women to join in efforts to free the abducted girls and also called on
wives of heads of Security agents, some of whom were present at the
meeting to help plead with their spouses to intensify their efforts in
the search for the girls 

"I want to use this opportunity to appeal to wives of
security chiefs at the national and state levels to mount pressures on
their spouses to intensify effort to rescue our dear children. However, I
feel it is necessary to call on all women in Borno to come up with
their resolutions and harmonize them. Let us all put our differences
aside irrespective of our faith, or ethnicity, let us all join hands
together to rescue these girls, I know that we can do it, Almighty Allah
is with us, He knows our intention. I am sure for now we are not on our
own, I am happy to inform you that the wife of the president called me
two days ago, I believe that she is also with us, let us all join hands
together irrespective of political affiliations.” she said

Meanwhile, Director of Defence Information, Maj-Gen
Chris Olukolade says the military is getting closer to the Boko Haram
base where the girls are being kept. He said this yesterday during a tour
with journalist to some of Boko Haram bases where the military has
been able to dismantle.

"The bases we visited are part of the responses to the
terrorist offensive and that is an achievement; the military had moved
close to where the insurgents are. It shows that the military had taken
over the land. The morale of the soldiers was high, and we are expecting
to see more successes from the troops” he said.