With Dozens of Schoolgirls Missing in Nigeria, Angry Parents Demand Answers
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With Dozens of Schoolgirls Missing in Nigeria, Angry Parents Demand Answers
"That’s why we are very angry." Militants from Boko Haram attacked the Government Girls Science and Technical School in Dapchi on Monday evening, guns blazing, in an episode
that evoked painful memories of the group’s 2014 attack on a school in Chibok that included the mass abduction of schoolgirls.
22, 2018
DAKAR, Senegal — Parents of girls who disappeared after their school in northern Nigeria was attacked by militants this week heckled state officials on Thursday
and pummeled a motorcade after being told that, despite government reports to the contrary, their daughters had yet to be found.
ChibokGirls said that draws dreadful and eerie similarities with the confusion that surrounded official communication following
At least two vehicles in the governor’s convoy were vandalized
and some people tried to attack the governor, said Mr. Goniri, who had come to the school on Thursday in hopes of learning the whereabouts of his two daughters.
But when Ibrahim Gaidam, the governor of Yobe State, arrived at the school on Thursday to update frantic
and worried parents, he said the girls in fact were still missing.
Initial accounts from the police and state officials put the number somewhere between 50 and 100; Mr. Goniri said that 94 girls were still missing.
"That’s why we are very angry." Militants from Boko Haram attacked the Government Girls Science and Technical School in Dapchi on Monday evening, guns blazing, in an episode
that evoked painful memories of the group’s 2014 attack on a school in Chibok that included the mass abduction of schoolgirls.
22, 2018
DAKAR, Senegal — Parents of girls who disappeared after their school in northern Nigeria was attacked by militants this week heckled state officials on Thursday
and pummeled a motorcade after being told that, despite government reports to the contrary, their daughters had yet to be found.
ChibokGirls said that draws dreadful and eerie similarities with the confusion that surrounded official communication following
At least two vehicles in the governor’s convoy were vandalized
and some people tried to attack the governor, said Mr. Goniri, who had come to the school on Thursday in hopes of learning the whereabouts of his two daughters.
But when Ibrahim Gaidam, the governor of Yobe State, arrived at the school on Thursday to update frantic
and worried parents, he said the girls in fact were still missing.
Initial accounts from the police and state officials put the number somewhere between 50 and 100; Mr. Goniri said that 94 girls were still missing.