Over two-hundred girls were kidnapped from a Nigerian boarding school in Chibok, a village in eastern Nigeria, on April 16th, 2014. The girls were kidnapped by a terrorist organization known as Boko Haram. It has been two weeks and the Nigerian government still has no answers for the families of the kidnapped girls. Hundreds of protesters stormed the streets of the village earlier in the week in order to capture the attention of the Nigerian government. The protesters believe that the government hasn't put enough focus on the issue, so many of the parents of the missing girls tried to go and find them themselves.
This relates to AP Government and Politics because over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about the role the media plays in government and how it shapes public opinion. The media has been very quiet about this story because it has been two weeks since the girls went missing and I've just heard about this story earlier this week.
I think the Nigerian government needs to do a lot more in order to find these girls. I can't fathom how over two hundred children our kidnapped from a school and the government does nothing about it. Stories like these make me appreciate that fact that I live in the U.S. where incidents like these don't happen, and if they did our government wouldn't sit back and watch it play out. http://www.salon.com/2014/05/01/hundreds_of_nigerians_take_to_the_streets_demand_government_action_to_find_abducted_school_girls/
I am happy that 2 of you have covered this story thus far. People need to know what is going on. Glad you chose this!
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