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| Dickson Iroegbu - Founder:#Greenwood Dialogue Foundation |
The story of a new Nigeria is on the
streets, I made a choice to partake from a filmmakers perspective, though I fail many times to prove my claims, yet there are proofs. I am a celebrated filmmaker. In 2005 the spotlight shone on me with accolades and awards. That faithful day I received a new burden, they gave me power without any support, just like the story of the average Nigeria Youth...! But I embarked on a Big Screen project, an antigen visual for humanity, a project titled Project Child Soldier. Since 2006.
Contn...reading.
...as a filmmaker i think this #BringBackOurGirl'sHijacked! #YEShijacked...lets change the narratives about our Nigeria. We must be deliberate, this is our nation! #MakeNigeriaWork4All! No Cease Fire...#RELEASEOURCHIBOKGIRLS!
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| Hadiza Bala Usman - Initiator: #BringBackOurGirls |
“I, Hadiza Bala Usman, the Convener/Initiator of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, is a member of the APC, and there has been no time I have hidden this fact or tried to mask it. But let’s be clear, when I worked to mobilize women, men, and Nigerians at large to come out on April 30th to protest that the Government should intensify efforts to #BringBackOurGirls, I did so not as an APC member, but first as a HUMAN BEING, as a WOMAN, a MOTHER, a NIGERIAN and an AFRICAN. It was never about politics and/or my political affiliations; it was rather about our shared humanity as human beings. As a mother, I have experienced the trauma of not knowing where my child is for few minutes; does it then surprise many why I would be moved to act on behalf of mothers who are yet to see their daughters for 2 weeks (at the first instance) and now over 189 days after?
@BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: I visualize insincerity in your campaign. We never knew you were partisan!#ReleaseOurChibokGirls!
“I came out as a concerned citizen of Nigeria, one that is very interested in the unity, growth, and development of this nation; one that knows the important role an educated girl-child would play in contributing to the success we all anticipate for our dear country. That these girls dared education in the face of terrorism, intimidation, insecurity, and other life-threatening circumstances, is a rare display of courage, doggedness, and hope. This is why I, alongside other #BringBackOurGirls campaigners, daily advocate to make sure these girls are not forgotten, but that they come home to contribute their quota to national development.
No CEASE Fire! We demand the immediate release of our Chibok girls! ...terror is an international crime anywhere in the globe! #ReleaseOurChibokGirls!
“This moment therefore offers for us a unique chance to stand united as a nation, whether you are in PDP, APGA, APC, or any political party; Christian or Muslim; from the North or the South. The issue of the abducted Chibok girls is an opportunity to UNITE and not DIVIDE – to unite against insurgency, terrorism, and every common enemy that seeks to divide us as a people. We must unite to ensure that every girl and boy in Nigeria has equal access to education. We must unite to change the narrative that no matter one’s tribe, gender, religion, social strata, interests, and political affiliations, we can all come together as one to transform our beloved nation for the best.
@TheClaimsDon'tMatch!
“I, Hadiza Bala Usman, choose to tow the path of UNITY. I will not be intimidated by anyone, and I will continue to stand for the Chibok girls regardless of my tribe, religion and political affiliation”.
Hadiza’s admission co-incided with a letter of apology by Chief Ogbe in which he told the BBOG that he did not intend to make them uncomfortable, but rather was out to show solidarity with their good works and insisted that the demand of the group must be acceded to by the federal government by taking every necessary step to bring back the girls.
Criminals don't get offered clemency before repentance! #ReleaseOurChibokGirls!
In a separate statement, in Abuja, yesterday, Chief Ogbe lamented that the greatest tragedy of the Chibok girls abduction was that the federal government was in denial and did nothing after it became too late to immediately rescue the innocent students.
His words, “the tragedy of the Nigerian situation with regards to these Chibok girls is that from the very beginning, Government and some leading members of the PDP were in complete denial.
“Sarcastic comments were even attributed to a woman leader of the ruling party. In one part of this country, a group of governors at their gathering, in unmistakable mockery and callous indifference, said that if girls were missing, their names should be sent to them so they could help find them.
“Since then, nothing concrete has been offered the Nigerian public by way of regular briefings about what the government is doing about these girls. It would seem therefore that the matter should be treated as another football match lost which should be forgotten. It took a 17 year old Pakistani girl called Malala within the age bracket of these girls to come to Nigeria to wake up our conscience.
“But for the BBOG, Nigeria would have portrayed herself to the world as a strange society that cares nothing for human -life, especially those of the children. While the rest of the world from Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific rose up in shocked reaction to this tragedy, we at home here have succumbed to petty politics and ethnic chauvinism”.
Very emotive indeed, but the story no balance finish abeg...who owns #BringBackOurGirlsLimited?
Dickson Shehu Iroegbu
(Founder - GREENWOOD DIALOGUE FOUNDATION)
Email: infotripod@yahoo.com
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