‘Pleading for more voices’
But patience has run out in the town, and for some the hope of finding them has disappeared.
“Our Chibok people have given up already. They don’t even believe there is a rescue operation going on,” said Peter Joseph, brother of Elizabeth, 17. “Each time I speak to my mother about my sister Eli she always cries. They were taken away alive, and we just don’t know where she is or what is happening to her. That feels worse than knowing she’s dead.”
Members of the Chibok community described how their town has been torn apart. Victor Ibrahim Garba, uncle of 18-year-old Naomi Stover, said: “There are a lot of parents in Chibok that are dead today. A lot of parents have died because of heartache … It has affected me and my family psychologically, emotionally and otherwise.”
Garba said the international fury that erupted in April is again needed to help free the teenagers.
“Whatever it takes, however long it takes, we are pleading for more voices. We are here every day under the sun and in the rain for others in our community and around the world to see that we are here. We will not stop until the girls are back even if it takes 100 years, even if it is just one person that remains standing.
“We demand the girls are brought home from hell, and we are pleading with people around the world to come to our aid. We are still here.”
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