Boko Haram threatens to kill parents, abducted girls

Parents of the abducted 234 female students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State claimed on Tuesday that the Boko Haram sect had threatened to kill them if they failed to stop their search for the abducted students.The parents, whose identities were not disclosed, spoke on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, monitored in Kaduna on Tuesday.They also noted that they had hired no fewer than 100 okada(commercial motorcyclists) to intensify their search for their children but to no avail.They claimed that those okada riders hired to search for their children at the Sambisa forest hadreturned, claiming that they could not find their wards/children.According to the report, the okada riders had returned because the violent sect had threatened to eliminate both the parents and the children.The parents therefore bemoaned the failure of the authorities to locate and rescue their children.However, the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, had pleaded with the aggrieved parents to remain calm and prayerful and assured them that the girls would soon be found.The governor, while addressing parents, said he was saddened and would never rest on his oars until the children returned to their parents.“I am not happy; the security agents are trying. In Sha Allah, the girls would be found,” he saidBut the Senator representing the area, Ali Ndume, slammed the authorities, saying it was not an idealsituation where those in authority live peacefully while other people always faced danger and pain.Ndume, who lamented the sad development, chided those in government for complacency over the missing students.