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Here are the face and pictures of some chibok girls kidnapped by bokoharam 

See the faces & names of

some of the kidnapped Chibok

girls Here are the faces and names of some of the

school girls kidnapped on April 14th in the Chibok

community in Borno state by Boko Haram men.

Photos released by ThisDay Newspaper. UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and former

UK Prime Minister, who was in Nigeria this week

shares his experience. Find the article he wrote

about the Chibok girls below.. "I was shown these pictures after visiting

Nigeria this week.

 I met the leader of the

community council in Chibok, the town from

which the girls were abducted. Slowly and with tears in his eyes, he flicked

through a file in which he had recorded the

names and photographs of the girls.

Continue... Not even the police and Army have managed

to compile such detail he has amassed from

talking to the parents of the kidnapped

teenagers. The file has 185 pages — one for every girl.

Each page has a photograph, and beside

each passport-sized picture some stark facts

— the girl’s name, her school grade and the

date of abduction. 

For the other 19 abducted

girls, he has yet to locate photographs. He will. The community leader and the girls’ families

have given permission for their names and

photographs to be put into the public domain

so the world is reminded of the missing girls.

He is being helped to publicize this by Arise

TV chief Nduka Obaigbena. 

There is also a file on the 53 girls who

escaped by running for their lives from their

Boko Haram kidnappers. I have spoken to three who fled. All want to

be doctors and work as medical helpers in

their communities. But for now, their lives are

on hold. They are unable to finish their exams, unable

to find a safe place to study near home and

are still in fear of another attack from Boko

Haram. They have lost a year of their

schooling and they are traumatised by the

kidnapping of their friends. For a teenage girl, eight weeks in captivity

could have life-time consequences — and for

their families it is torture. 

The idea that your

daughter should go to school one day and

never return is every parent’s nightmare. 

Not

to know whether they have been molested, trafficked or are even alive is a living hell. These girls were abducted for the sole reason

that their captors believe that girls have no

right to an education. Yet this civil rights struggle is being fought out,

brutally and — for most of the time — shamefully

unobserved. On one side, terrorists, murderers, rapists and

cowards, hell-bent on acts of depravity. On the

other, defiant, relentless, brave-beyond-

comprehension young girl-heroes and boy-heroes

desperately fighting for a future but, sadly, in a

world largely oblivious to their plight. In Britain and in the United States, we do find out.

We do learn about abuse and horror from across

the globe and we do react. But it’s often too late,

and then, inevitably, it’s always too little. We

should not fail young people, but it seems like we

always do. But we can’t forget. We owe them. We can’t give

up because they won’t have given up.