Women Weep At National Assembly Beg Fed Govt To Assist In The Release Of Abducted Girls.(Photos).

Senate President, David Mark, Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal and Deputy Speaker House of Representatives,
Emeka Ihedioha, in company with other federal lawmakers, defied a downpour to address parents of abducted schoolgirls who protested at
the National Assembly on Wednesday.
The obviously traumatised parents were joined by other women to protest the continued abduction of more than 243 students of Federal
Government Girls College in Chibok, Borno State, by the Boko Haram
insurgents, over two weeks ago.

David Mark and Tambuwal receives mothers.

The women in tears, besieged the National Assembly complex
and urged the legislators to do something urgently as they could no
longer bear the agony and pains of imagining the trauma that their
daughters would be passing through in the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents.
Mark assured them that the hearts of all well meaning Nigerians were
with them in their critical moment of agony.
He said, “The Senators and members of the House of Representatives
wept over this abduction when we were discussing it at our separate
chambers on Tuesday.
“We have reached an unbearable stage. We can no longer tolerate this.
“We are drenched. Totally soaked in the rain. It is better to be beaten
by the rain and get our children freed from their captors.
“If it means standing in the rain until the girls are freed we are prepared
to do so.
“We are lost for words. We can only apologise that it is taking this long
to get these girls freed.
“We are not going to rest until the last of the girls is freed. All the
security apparatus, all of us must get involved in this battle.
“There is no mistaken the fact that we are in a state of war. With God
on our side, we shall triumph over evil”.
One of the Speakers and former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, said
“the situation has become intolerable”.