Enugu school children weep for kidnapped Chibok girls

Tears and grief marked the children’s day
celebration in Enugu on Tuesday, as
thousands of primary and secondary school
children wept openly while praying for the
safety and speedy release of the over 200
female students of the Government Secondary
School, Chibok abducted by the Boko Haram
insurgents more than a month ago.
The children roused the audience at the
Michael Okpara Square venue of the event with
the passionate words of prayer they voiced
while raising their hands towards an imagined
direction of Sambisa forest (where the Chibok
girls are believed to be held) and beseeching
God to send his angels there to rescue their
colleagues.
They also carried placards denouncing the
abduction of the school girls and calling for
their immediate release and an end to the
harassment of school children and their
teachers in the northern part of the country.