Nigeria: Even Refugee Children Say - #BringBackOurGirls

11 June 2014

They are currently living in forced exile as displaced victims of war and other violent crises. But this has not stopped about 80 children of refugees from different African countries from identifying with the global outrage over the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. In fact, they had used the last Children Day celebration to call for the immediate release of the kidnapped school girls who have been in captivity since April 14.

The children made their #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS plea in a drama presentation at a get together organised by the South West Zone of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally-Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, in Lagos to commemorate this year's Children's Day celebration.

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