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The Foreigners View on #BringBackOurGirls

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Spending almost my entire day at the airport isn’t such a bad thing for me today. Now despite the Boko Haram insurgency trailing the nation, especially in the Northeastern part of the country, foreigners are still trooping into the country in their large numbers and from different countries. My 13 hours at the airport was spent on foreigners entering Nigeria for one reason or the other. One thing though seem common amongst them all, they are sad, really sad about the abducted Girls from Chibok community and they pray that the government, with the support of the various foreign aides in the country right now, will help bring back the girls to their parents.

When the plane from Frankfurt landed, as the passengers trooped out from TERMINAL ONE angle of the airport, the eyes of the people, both the ones that are Nigerians and the ones that are not, were really UP. They stood afar to look and be sure of who they are going to meet before they step out in the open. The first person i spoke with, a young man in his mid twenties stated that the Nigerian issue is not really different from what’s going on in other countries like America where he’s from. He said that what the government tried doing in the initial stage, that is, trying to cover the ongoing situation in the country was wrong and that it was as a result of that, that the Islamic group, Boko Haram, got more wings to fly around.

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Boko Haram members are devils that needs to be destroyed, a lady in a group of 5 stated to me. She agreed that Nigerian government are awakee today and she’s happy that a more serious move is been taken to see that the abducted girls are brought back home and that the Boko Haram members are captured and tried in a law court. A large percentage of them feel it’s cool for the #BringBackOurGirls initiative and really inspiring on how other nations picked up the banner to help extend the story and gain more solidarity for Nigeria and Nigerians alike.

Thing is, they all have their various opinion and what they feel the government should do to bring back the girls as well as end the insurgency in the North. One thing i found common amongst them all was that they were happy to be in Nigeria and are very much willing to visit Chibok Community where the abduction took place.

These are some of the views of those entering Nigeria for the first time, what is yours?

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Jeff Okoroafor is a leading member of a new generation of civic advocates for government accountability and democratic change in Nigeria. The Citizen Affairs Initiative is a citizen-driven governance initiative that enhances public awareness on critical issues of service quality in Nigeria. It encourages citizens to proactively seek higher standards from governments and service providers and further establishes new discussions in communities about the standards that citizens should expect and deserve from those they have given their mandates. Jeff is the Managing Director of SetFron Limited, a multimedia development company that is focused on creative and results-driven web, mobile app, and ERP software solutions. He is the co-founder of the African Youths Advancement and Support Initiative (AfriYasi), a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation that provides tertiary education scholarship for young people from low-income homes in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative and the United Nations World Summit Awards. A Strategic Team member of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, and a member of the National Technical Committee on the Establishment and Management of Missing Persons Database in Nigeria. Jeff holds a Bachelor and Postgraduate diploma degrees in Computer Science, and a Certificate in Public Administration from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA.

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