PDP women want Chibok school to release names, pictures of abducted girls

By Samuel Ogidan
Abuja

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women yesterday challenged the authority of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, to release the names and pictures of the 234 girls abducted by Boko Haram.

The women, made up of Christians and Muslims, made the request at the party’s national secretariat where they organised a prayer session for the unity in of the country.

Chairman of the prayer session, Senator Helen Esuene, frowned upon the abduction of 234 secondary school girls by insurgents in Chibok, Borno state, stressing that “Nigeria needs divine intervention to secure the release of the children.”

The party’s National Woman Leader, Dr. Kema Chikwe, who said she organised the prayer session against insurgency, other forms of criminality against the nation and defection of members from the party, said the mood of the nation called for sober reflection by every Nigerian.
She said: “Notwithstanding, we are still facing the frightening problem of Boko Haram, a monster that has taken the lives of so many innocent

Nigerians. We face the unrelenting menace of kidnapping. Armed robbery has become more overwhelming. There is no newspaper that does not carry news of rape, even of babies. There is hypocrisy about corruption among individual Nigerians.
“For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light; lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen, that his deeds have been wrought in God. Let God’s light shine in our great country, Nigeria and reveal the perpetrators of darkness.

“Today, we will pray for miraculous revelations and solutions to this issue. We have convened this prayer session to bare our hearts open to God as Christians and Muslims. We shall make a way in our hearts for God to come in and settle, as we are contact points of our party members and all Nigerian women.”