The
Bring Back Our Girls campaign said Tuesday it would stage a "Chibok
Girls Ambassador March" in the capital Abuja on the 500-day anniversary
of the kidnappings, followed by a candle-lit procession.
"Since
498 days that they have been missing... we failed them and they were
taken and the best thing is for us to have rescued them that very day.
And up until now, 498 days after, we still haven't done that," campaign
spokeswoman Aisha Yesufu told AFPRelatives of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram said they would hold a youth march and candle-lit vigil on Thursday to mark 500 days since the abductions.
Boko Haram fighters stormed the
Government Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state
on April 14 last year, seizing 276 girls who were preparing for
end-of-year exams.
Fifty-seven
escaped but nothing has been heard of the remaining 219 since May last
year, when about 100 of them appeared in a Boko Haram video dressed in
Muslim attire and reciting the Koran.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has since said they have all converted to Islam and been "married off".
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