save and keep the girls

This mother’s day today,some mothers could not hear the words “happy mothers day” from their daughters because they decided to send them to school.Boko haram kidnapped more than 200 girls is the broken record part, and 59 girls killed in their sleep seems to be the forgotten part. These are girls we cannot account for. Yes the world is coming together to help a country with a GDP of 507 billion –the biggest economy in Africa to fight a group of men. Those are the facts.

The other part of that coin seems to be lying face down for too long if you as me. What next? The first lady of America describes this is a threat to girls education globally we have all seen Nigeria being hit at the outskirts and at the heart of its nation. The capability of this group cannot be over emphasized. That message definitely sunk in Wole Soyinka a landmark in African literature calls one of the leaders a “homicidal maniac” but then again “What is Next?”

International quest for abducted girls.

What about Cameroonian girls? Girls in a country which is closest to that which is being robbed of generations. Are they safe? Cameroon is a country that is slowly evolving to the era where boys and girls will be given equal opportunities to an education. The North of Cameroon is always put in sharp focus when the topic if girls education arises because its seems to be a battle of development and culture in which development has more armour and reason,but if education wins, will the girls be killed for what they know?

The first man has been hit whether they were warned or not we cannot possibly think they are going to end there. Neither can we think that they will end at the level of the French priest and Italian nuns. When the few foreigners decide to remain foreign, more ways will be created to derive pleasure and for a gang of men that kill children in their sleep there is no telling what can be done.

Neighbors of Nigeria all wish that they “Bring back our girls” but don’t think they cannott do more that Nigeria.It is now more if a question of “when” and not “if”…

I stand behind bring back our girls and ask for the queue on keep our girls safe.