Mercy Johnson Pleads with Boko Haram : Please Release Our Girls

Actress, Mercy Johnson, has added her voice to the chorus seeking the release of the over 200 Chibok girls who were kidnapped recently by the Boko Haram sect.

In a statement, Johnson, who is also a mother expressed her sadness at the development. “Sometimes our realities remind us of the pain of others. My reality as a mother is that I get to see my daughter every day while the reality of the mothers of the kidnapped Chibok girls is that they don’t even know where their daughters are. I look at my daughter and tears come to my eyes. All the mothers of the kidnapped girls can have for now is only memories,” Johnson lamented. Calling on all well meaning Nigerians to join the effort to rescue the girls, Johnson said: “Let us not for once think that the evil-doers cannot do the same to the rest of us if they have the opportunity. This is not a war against a select group of people; it is a war against all well-meaning mothers in Nigeria as injustice to one is injustice to all. “Let the mothers rise and the men who love them stand by their right hand while the children who adore them stand on their left so that we can do all we can in our spheres of influence to ensure that the children come back home safely and the heartbroken mothers can smile again. “These girls are innocent. They have their future ahead of them. Please do not cut it short. I dare say some of them could end up being the solution we desire to restore the lost and battered glory of this nation. Please don’t kill or damage the future all in the name of militancy,” Johnson added appealing to security operatives not to be demoralized. For the political class, Johnson has a message: “Do not think that any right-thinking Nigerian would allow that this matter be swept under the carpet. This isn’t one of the matters we would keep mum about because we will continue talking, praying and protesting until you make the matter your matter. If your child were one of the children that were abducted, we would probably have heard of the end of the matter; let’s not fold our arms and let evil reign.”