One hundred and eighty days after the abduction of over 200 school girls in the Chibok area of Borno state, a Bring Back Our Girls campaign group organized a candle light vigil in Abuja on Saturday, October 11, 2014, to commemorate their capture by the men of the Boko Haram sect.
According to reports, afterwards, American R&B singer, Alicia Keys joined the many others who had lend their voices to see that the captured girls are rescued from their captors.
According to Keys, “Putting the spotlight on these girls is very, very important to me and I thought that it is my job to help shine the light on what is going on and show people: this is still happening and we must not forget and it is going on for six months.”
“Six months and nobody is back and the girls are just there because of the need of education and they are abducted? So that is why we must say that we are not allowing this to dissipate, no, we are going to continue to say we are not standing for this, it is not okay,” she added.
