Wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, her husband, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and Iyalode Alaba Lawson, leading a cross section of women in Ogun State to demand for the immediate release of the abducted schoolgirls in Chibok during the solidarity Walk organised by Mrs. Amosun in Abeokuta..
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s wife, Mrs. Bola Obasanjo and wife of Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, on Monday joined hundreds of women in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, to protest the abduction of over 200 female students of a government college in Chibok, Borno State.
The protest which began at about 8am at the M.K.O Abiola Stadium, Kuto area took the women through IBB Boulevard and terminated at the Ogun State House of Assembly complex, where Mrs. Amosun presented their protest letter to the Speaker, Suraj Adekunbi , for onward delivery to President Goodluck Jonathan.
The protesters also took their grievance to the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan.
At the Governor’s office, they met Governor Amosun and demanded action from the federal government as well as unconditional and safe release of the innocent school girls by their abductors.
The Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief (Mrs.) Alaba Lawson; members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, market women and female artisans, among others took part in the protest march.
The women, who deplored the girls’ abduction displayed placards bearing various inscriptions: “Kidnapped school girls must be found,” “Our girls are not sex machine,” “Bring back our girls,””Haba!, this is barbaric in the 21st century” and “Let all our women rise to save our girls.”
At the Ogun State Assembly complex, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Elizabeth Sonubi, who addressed the lawmakers called on states and National Assembly members to take action towards freeing the girls from the terrorists.
Sonubi also appealed to President Jonathan to help secure the girls’ release.
