Learners demand that girls be released
On Tuesday learners from Mjejane Primary School in Mangweni showed their solidarity with the international Release Our Girls campaign.
MANGWENI – On Tuesday learners from Mjejane Primary School in Mangweni showed their solidarity with the international Release Our Girls campaign.
During a special assembly a grade six learner, Mfundo Siboz, recited a poem where he said it was no longer about the girls, but was about the African child.
He said, “We are here to join hands with the whole world in the Release Our Girls Campaign. It is not about the girls or Nigeria but it is about an African child. In February 106 people were killed in the village of Izghe by the same Boko Haram and today they have kidnapped our sisters, so we are saying enough is enough; sekwanele. As future African leaders we do not have to sit back and smell the roses but we need to demonstrate and voice our anger.
“To Boko Haram and their leader Abubakar Shekau; please release the innocent girls. To you fellow Africans; if you love the peace of Africa and will desire God to make Himself manifest in the affairs of the continent, you will join in prayer for the release of our sisters, our girls and our future African leaders.”
According to the school’s principal, Mr Moses Ngomane, the learners were educated about Nigeria’s history and the kidnapping of the girls was topical of late.
