#BringBackOurGirls Chibok parents accuse Vice Principal of participating in abduction

Parents of some of the abducted Chibok schoolchildren have accused the girls’ Vice Principal of being complicit in their abduction.

The girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014.

According to Sahara Reporters, the parents claimed that the Vice Principal, Yerima Banjiri had insisted that the girls remain in the school compound the night they were abducted.

Banjiri also allegedly threatened to expel any student who disobeyed the order.

 “A week before their abductions, Malam Yerima threatened the students not to leave for their various homes. He said that whoever went home should forget she was ever a student at the school,” one of the girls’ mothers, Mariam Abubakar told Sahara Reporters.

“He told the girls that none of them should go home, that they must sleep in the school. However, none of the teachers’ daughters or even the daughters of the management staff was among those kidnapped. Only the children of we poor people were asked to sleep in the school. The [teachers and administrators] had kept their children in safer places before Boko Haram arrived,” she added.

“Our concern is that since the day of [the girls’] abduction, we have never set our eyes on Malam Yerima. He is on run,” she said further.

Meanwhile, #BringBackOurGirls campaigner, Oby Ezekwesilihas urged US President, Barack Obama to do more to rescue the missing girls.