by Isi Esene

The #BringBackOurGirls group will soon commence activities to mark the one year anniversary of the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls forcefully taken away on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram insurgents.

According to a release signed by the group’s coordinators, former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili and Hadiza Bala Usman, the group will, from April 8, start a Global Week of Action to usher in a number of activities to commemorate the day.

One of the activities planned for the commemoration is a search for 219 Chibok Ambassadors who will be presented to the world on April 14 as they join the #BBOG all around the world in the #GlobalSchoolGirlsMarch to march for the girls in Abuja.

According to the organisers, the Ambassadors who should be girls between the ages of 10 – 18 would serve as goodwill ambassadors acting as advocates of the abducted girls.

“It is a strategic initiative that pulls in more deliberately, their generation into the cause of our Chibok girls,” the statement said.

Read the rest of the statement below:

“During our Special Global Week Of Action commemorating our #ChibokGirls’ abduction, we shall like to have all our friends across Nigeria and the world to join in and support our activities in their different communities, cities and countries.

The effort of every man and woman, far and near, in this particular period will be critical in driving the required renewed demand and pressure to find our girls and bring them home to their parents.

Wherever you are, we call on you today to join in; to rally afresh and to mobilize resources to bring our #ChibokGirls back on the front burner. A day in the captivity of terrorists is agonizingly dreadful enough. One year is too much and too difficult to imagine. Our #ChibokGirls are innocent global citizens that the world must ensure are #NeverToBeForgotten,” the statement said.

The group called on Pres. Goodluck Jonathan and Pres.-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari to the rescue of the Chibok girls at the very top of their agenda as power changes hands between both leaders.

“While congratulating both the current president and incoming one, the president-elect, we demand that both prioritise the rescue of our missing 219 #ChibokGirls as a topmost agenda during this transition period, and to work together in assiduously in unison to see that our missing girls return before the handover date of 29 May 2015,” it said.

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Find below on our website the Program of Action and how you can participate:

http://www.bringbackourgirls.ng/commemoration-form/

There is also the Chibok Girls Ambassadors. Schoolgirls aged 10 -18 who would volunteer to stand for our missing Chibok girls. Details are available at this link:

http://www.bringbackourgirls.ng/fuel-the-movement/ambassadors-form/

Schools would also be able to participate by organizing marches called the Global School Girl March. Details are available at this link:

http://bringbackourgirls.us/school-girl-march/