The Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, Borno chapter, has said 17 parents of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists are dead.
Rev. Titus Ponna, Borno State chairman of CAN, in an interview with The Nation, said that most parents of the victims prefer to assume their children are dead, perform burial rites, and move on, rather than waiting in vain for their return.
Ponna added that he discovered the frustration of the girls' parents when he went fellowship with them.
His words: “I went to Chibok and fellowshipped with some of the parents of the abducted girls. I think up to 17 of the parents are dead and some others are really disturbed.
“So, I feel it is really important for us to for the parents and also for the abducted girls so that God will help to rescue them alive.
“Some of the parents told me how they wished they knew that their daughters were dead so that they would finish the ceremony…,” Rev. Ponna said.
Boko Haram seized around 200 schoolgirls in April 2014 from their dormitories in the town of Chibok, northeastern Nigeria