NIGERIA: Nigerian women activists vow to march 'half-naked' in Chibok for kidnapped schoolgirls
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NIGERIA: Nigerian women activists vow to march 'half-naked' in Chibok for kidnapped schoolgirls
- Title: NIGERIA: Nigerian women activists vow to march 'half-naked' in Chibok for kidnapped schoolgirls
- Date: 12th May 2014
- Summary: PROTESTERS SINGING 'WE WILL OVERCOME'
- Embargoed: 27th May 2014 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Nigeria
- Country: Nigeria
- Topics: Crime,General,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVAYS7LKP9CSRTD5T28AHBZ1NUB
- Story Text: Hundreds of men, women and schoolgirls marched in Lagos on Monday (May 12), demanding the release of more than 200 schoolgirls that continue to be held by Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram.
The protesters chanted 'Bring back our girls,' carried placards and sang 'We shall overcome' as they marched through the streets of the capital on what a group of women activists said would be a 14-day, multi-city protest culminating in a 'half-naked' protest at the site of the abductions, if nothing has happened by then.
"At the end of 14 days of the nationwide protest, if nothing is done, God forbid, all of us are going to protest half-naked inside Chibok, we are going there and we are ready to lay down our lives," said woman activist Joei Odumakin.
Other schoolgirls were out protesting in solidarity with the kidnapped girls, including Gambo Fredous who said all girls have a right to education.
"Without education, you can't go far in this world, and I don't know why some girls should be deprived of that," she said.
Militants fighting for an Islamist state stormed a secondary school in the northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 and seized 276 girls who were taking exams. Some managed to escape but around 200 remain missing.
The group has killed thousands since 2009 and destabilized parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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