Monday, 14 July 2014

Photos: Today, Malala Yousafzai met with GEJ who said Chibok girls would "soon" return home

Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai has met President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja with a call for more action towards freeing the over 200 girls still being held by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
Malala, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, arrived the Aso Rock Villa alongside his father.
She was accompanied by the spokesperson of the Department of State Security Service, Mary Orgar.
Malala stormed the Villa with more than 20 foreign journalists from Aljazeera, AP, VOA, Bloomberg, ABC News, BBC, Glamour, CNN, among others.
The meeting is being attended by the National Security Adviser Dasuki Sambo, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Minister of State for Education, Nyelson Wike, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Viola Onwurli, Director General of the National Orientation Agency (Mike Omeri), among others.
Malala is in Nigeria over the abduction of the schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan promised on Monday that more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants would "soon" return home, teenage Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai said after meeting him.

In May, Jonathan canceled a planned trip to Chibok. And soldiers and police prevented activists from marching to his presidential village in Abuja, the capital, to give him written demands the same month.
Malala met in Abuja with some parents of the kidnapped girls and some of the dozens of girls and young women who escaped the abduction. All have been begging Jonathan to negotiate with Boko Haram extremists.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau put out a new video this week in which he repeated his demands that the government release scores of detained insurgents in exchange for the girls' freedom.
"Nigerians are saying 'Bring Back Our Girls,' and we are telling Jonathan to bring back our arrested warriors, our army," he says in the video.
Jonathan so far has refused.

Today,  Monday July 14, Malala appealed to the Nigerian government to dedicate more money to education, to drastically reduce the hundreds of thousands of children who are out of school in the country, not just in the northeast area that is under a state of emergency and where Boko Haram has targeted schools, killing hundreds of students.
"We express our solidarity with you and we are with you, we are standing up with you in your campaign of 'Bring Back Our Girls,' bring back our daughters because I consider these girls as my sisters, they are my sisters," Malala said at the meeting with parents. "I'm going to speak up for them until they are released, and I'm going to participate actively in the 'Bring Back Our Girls' campaign to make sure that they return safely and continue their education.





L-R: Mr. Ziauddin Yousafzai; Malala's Father, Malala, President Goodluck Jonathan, Coordinating Minister of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Min of State Foreign Affairs Prof. Viola Onwuliri
President Jonathan presenting a Souvenir to Malala during her visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja

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