“We Have Spent 132 Days In Comfort, They Have Spent 132 Days In Unknown” — 78 Borno Children Still In Kidnappers’ Den Including 1-Year-Old

For 132 agonizing days, 78 children including a one-year-old baby have remained in captivity after they were taken away into the hands of evil men deep in the forest, with their parents waking up dead every single day.

In a viral video that has triggered fresh outrage, activist Muhammad Al-amin Usman said sympathy is no longer enough for the parents who have been left weeping publicly with placards reading “I want to see my daughter.”

“I know you will just sympathize with him and pass. And honestly, I wouldn’t even blame you because even I would have just sympathized with him and passed before I had a child of my own.

“But now more than ever, I know that those tears he’s shedding cannot be consoled with sympathy. When you lose your child — not lying in the hospital waiting to die, not dead and buried in a grave, just lost into the unknown, into the hands of evil men deep in the forest — you don’t live to enjoy sympathy. You wake up a dead man every single day,” Usman said in the video.

Usman decried the injustice unfolding before the nation, questioning why politicians are allowed to campaign and promise a better future when the present is on the verge of collapse.

“It breaks my heart that we are watching this injustice unfold in our very own eyes, and we dare to say that there is nothing that we can do. When seventy-eight children are taken away from us, when a one-year-old is still lying somewhere in the unknown, crying for his mother with no answer and his mother breaking into pieces, we must do everything that we must — whatever and however — to never ever stop talking about them,” he said.

According to him, Nigerians are only getting tired in the comfort of their homes while the children have spent 132 days in the unknown, demanding that every politician must speak about their rescue.

“No matter how many times we get tired, we are just getting tired in the comfort of our own homes. They have spent 132 days in the unknown. We must demand that every politician speak about them, not tomorrow, today. We must demand that no campaign holds without speaking about their rescue.

“Why would they be looking us right in the eyes and make promises of a better future when our present is on the verge of collapse? Why will they make promises of protecting our children tomorrow when our children today are in captivity for over 130 days in the den of the kidnappers?

“We must never stop talking about the Borno children until they are all safely back home to their mothers,” he added.