Stop Killing Shekau Over And Over, Bring Back The Girls, BBOG Tells Army

Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) leader

The leader of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has urged the military to stop killing leader of the terrorist Boko Haram group, Abubakar Shekau over and over, rather they should rescue the abducted Chibok girls.

Ezekwesili said Shekau has been “killed” on four occasions by the military yet nothing concrete about the abducted girls.

The military had on Tuesday, said an unprecedented and spectacular air raid “fatally wounded” Shekau in his shoulders.

“Those Boko Haram terrorists commanders confirmed dead include Abubakar Mubi, Malam Nuhu and Malam Hamman, amongst others, while their leader, the so-called ‘Abubakar Shekau’, is believed to be fatally wounded on his shoulders. Several other terrorists were also wounded,” Sani Kukasheka Usman, spokesman of the army, had said.

But Ezekwesili in a march by the BBOG to the presidential villa on Thursday, said time had completely run out and a decisive action was needed to rescue the abducted girls.

“Another key issue in the last 72 hours is the military’s announcement that Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, was fatally wounded during air raids.

“We want it on record that this is at least the fourth time the Nigerian state has triumphantly announced killing this fellow.

“Today, day 864 since the abduction of our girls, time has completely run out. It is time to take decisive action and bring them home. No more delays,” she said.

A father of one of the abducted girls, Yakubu Enoch, whose daught Dorcas Yakubu, allegedly spoke in a recent video clip released by the insurgents, lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari had refused to listen to the parents of the abducted girls.

“The last time we came to the villa the way you even attended to us showed that you were frustrated; you were not happy with us. Are we not Nigerians or don’t you have a special interest in the girls?.

“As it happened to Chibok it can happen to any place. If Buhari feels he cannot work, please let him release us. Let him get down and give it to somebody.”