{"id":14081,"date":"2014-04-25T04:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-vows-to-rescue-abducted-schoolgirls\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T04:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:34:50","slug":"nigeria-vows-to-rescue-abducted-schoolgirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-vows-to-rescue-abducted-schoolgirls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Vows to Rescue Abducted Schoolgirls"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Nigeria’s government has vowed to do all it can to rescue some 190 girls abducted from their school last week, following a crisis meeting in Abuja.}}<\/p>\n

Security chiefs, ministers, state governors and religious leaders met to discuss the growing insecurity.<\/p>\n

One governor said the abduction was the “issue of the moment” and said the government and army were doing everything they could to rescue them.<\/p>\n

But one of the girls’ fathers said he just wanted to see his daughter safe.<\/p>\n

“We will only say the meeting has achieved something tangible when we see our children back home,” the man, whose identity is being protected for security reasons.<\/p>\n

The government has been widely criticised for its muted response after gunmen abducted some 230 girls from a school in Chibok, Borno state last week. About 40 girls have managed to escape.<\/p>\n

{{Political wrangling}}<\/p>\n

The students were about to sit their final year exam and so are mostly aged 16-18.<\/p>\n

No group has said it was behind the kidnapping but Islamist group Boko Haram has been widely blamed.<\/p>\n

It has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed this year alone.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day that the girls were abducted on 14 April, some 71 people were killed in a rare Boko Haram attack on the capital, Abuja.<\/p>\n

After Thursday’s security meeting, Ekiti state Governor Kayode Fayemi described the abduction as “the issue of the moment”.<\/p>\n

“We must do everything to ensure that these abducted children are retrieved and protected. And the military assured us they’re doing everything in order to achieve this objective,” he said.<\/p>\n

Defence Minister Aliyu Gusau said the meeting had also discussed the wider Boko Haram insurgency, as well as a spate of deadly attacks between mainly Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers in central parts of the country.<\/p>\n

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