#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

I What happened to those girls?  

 After the campaign, everywhere was silent. Then 

 contradicting testimonies of  escapees flew around 

and then died. Suddenly, the army announced they 

knew where they were being kept. It all just makes you want to throw up and ask questions 

but all you can come up with is ‘?????’. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon this article from a 

website that I understood clearly

  

From indepthafrica.com:

The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has accused the Bring Back Our Girls campaigners of turning the protest into a franchise.

Its Director of Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar said this yesterday at a security briefing at the National Information Centre (NIC) in Abuja.

According to her, “Bring Back Our Girls Movement has become a franchise and security forces know what they are up to. If it is an ordinary movement seeking to pile pressure on government or security agencies to release these girls, there will be no need for the group to begin to have tags, insisting that you must have a tag and be properly registered to be part of them.”

“Security forces also know that they have bank accounts; we also know that they want to go to Asokoro Extension and simulate some false movements where they will have some foreign media to say that they are marching inside Sambisa and Chibok.

“We also know that they brought in some experts from outside the country to come and teach them on how to beat security onslaught when they are demonstrating; to withstand police teargas and security operations.

“We are waiting to see when these things would work. We also know that they are dividing themselves into groups and zones giving each other specific assignments.

She further accused the campaigners of paying courtesy calls to money bags to solicit support.

“If it’s a genuine struggle, then it must be done transparently. There will be no need for you to ask people to register to know who is a member or who is not,” she said.

“It is getting very ridiculous but we are still watching and hope that genuinely, there is no need to hire people to come and claim that they have children among the girls that were abducted. It has become a franchise and we know.

“I also want to ask that if it is not a franchise, why would those involved in the movement decide to carry out smear campaign against certain government officials.

“If we have to fight for our rights, let us genuinely fight for our rights by being more transparent. We also know that they run bank accounts; that they visit prominent people to solicit for funds; funds for what?”, Ogar asked.