Chibok Ambassadors Call for Return of Their Sisters in Abuja Protest

A group of 219 girls, known as ‘Chibok Ambassadors,’ protested in Abuja on Tuesday, April 14, on the first anniversary of the day 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a secondary school in Borno State by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group. Carrying signs bearing the names of the 219 girls who still remain missing, the young ambassadors marched solemnly through the streets of Nigeria’s capital.

The message on the protesters’ placards had changed from “Bring Back Our Girls” to a less hopeful one: “Never to be forgotten.” This footage captures the girls, dressed in red, chanting “Give back our girls, now!” and “Chibok girls, never to be forgotten.”

“We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued. Their whereabouts remain unknown,” Buhari said in a statement released on April 14. “As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them.” Credit: Facebook/Waziri S. Bello