 Today marks the 8th anniversary of the mass abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok Town, which brought the once obscure Brno State community to global attention. On the night of that day, Boko Haram terrorists invaded the government's second-rest school Chibok and abducted a total of 276 schoolgirls from their dormitory, despite the copious promises made by the government to do everything within its power to secure the release of the girls. Nothing tangible seems to have happened each year after as about 100 of them are still missing. Joining us on the news to discuss issues concerning the Chibok girls is Sesug Akume, member of the hashtag bring back our girls' strategic movement. Thanks for joining us. Good evening. Good evening. Eight years after these girls were kidnapped, so many of them are still held captive. What's your take on this? What's going on? I don't know what's going on. The government should tell us what is going on because we don't know what is going on. Today it's been eight years since the abduction of 276 schoolgirls, 109 of them remain missing. Abductions keep going on every day and there's more insecurity today than it was eight years ago. So I honestly can't answer what is going on, the government should answer that for us. Are you in contact with any of the parents? Yes we are in contact with the parents and they don't know what is going on either. The government doesn't speak to them, does not address them, does not answer any of their concerns. It only gives issues out, people's statements on the 14th of April every year and goes to sleep till the 14th of April the next year and that's all. Okay, do you know of any go-between between these parents and the government? Are there go-betweens? Do you speak at such go-betweens? We're not aware of any go-betweens. We only get the information directly from the parents and also whenever the government releases information in the media, that's it, we don't know about any go-betweens. Because if there were any information we would have known because we're in touch with the parents, we're in touch with the Kibaku area development association, that's the Chiboku community and so forth that we work together. So if there were any development or anything at all we would have known. But there's nothing at all, not anything the government is saying. The government itself hasn't said anything, so that's where we are, just where we were last year essentially. You sound very distraught. I feel very frustrated and disappointed and angry at the same time. Nobody anticipated that eight years on we were still talking about the same thing. Remember that when the abduction happened it was something that it was possible to rescue them within a week, within days, but the government then was dragging its feet and deceiving itself and deceiving others and the thing kept going on. And then the government left and a new one came and came with a bundle of incompetence like my colleague spoke earlier, the person who spoke to earlier said, a bundle of incompetence was standing last regime. And so that is before one bumbley started the other. Yeah, we give kudos to them because within this time, one hundred and one hundred and ten have come back from 2016 to now, which is something because before then not one was came back. And we also fertilize the idea that there was no such thing as Chiboku girls and there was no abduction also, but we have one and ten of them back and one hundred and nine remain missing today, including others that were conducted in the process like Leah Sharibu and others who are still in captivity. Thank you for mentioning Leah Sharibu. What are your recommendations for rescuing or to rescue her? Leah Sharibu is not any different from our Chiboku girls or the other people in captivity. The only difference between Leah Sharibu and any other person is because Leah Sharibu remains in captivity on account of her faith. The others had nothing to do with their faith. They were just adopted in their schools and so forth. But for Leah Sharibu, every other person was returned. Leah Sharibu was not returned on account of her faith. So anything that would bring Leah Sharibu back would bring back the Chiboku girls and would bring back the other people who abducted their health workers, their health workers, their humanitarian workers who are in captivity too and so forth. And so forth. I mean, just recently they've been abductious too. We have a mess of security system that gives room for the abductious to happen. We have a failure of governance problem that has to be fixed. And these are the core issues that led to the abduction in the first place and lead to there being continually in captivity to this day. And for continual and continuous abductions to keep on happening. The schools are not safe either. The Safe Schools Initiative, which was designed to make schools in Nigeria safe, failed. It failed in Nigeria because we have an incompetent and insincere government. That's just it. And so from not just in the northeast or not just in northern Nigeria down to the eastern Nigeria and everywhere else, everywhere is unsafe. And children are now wondering whether to be in school or to be safe. Children should never be put in that kind of a position for any reason. Well, what's your next line of action? What are you planning to do or advise the parents to do? That's my last question to you. Today, we're going to be outlining whatever next we're going to be doing because today is the eighth year of the abduction. Earlier today we had, we commemorated the abduction the eighth year and also held the sixth Anwar Chiba Girls lecture and so forth and had discussions with the public and so on. And that's what happened today. And any other steps we'll be taking further will be communicated in due course. Thank you very much for your time. Carry us along please as roll out your next lines of action. And we sincerely wish them a safe return. You cannot see the return anymore. Thank you for your time. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.