Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis 1, has
said the 21 girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno
State, who were released by the Boko Haram abductors on Monday last
week, need experts to rehabilitate them.
The 21 girls were among the over 200
pupils of the GSS, who were abducted on April 14, 2014, by terrorists
from their school in Chibok while preparing for the West African Senior
School Certificate Examinations.
The Pope, who was represented by the
President of Pontifical Mission Societies (Nigeria), Rev. Fr. George
Ajana, said this during this year’s World Mission Sunday at Our Lady
Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Area 3, Abuja.
He said the experts would “stabilise and give the girls psychological rehabilitation.”
The Pope stated, “The release of the 21
Chibok girls is victory, it is a very good sign and we are thanking God
for it that some of the Chibok girls were released. Nigerians have been
celebrating all this while, the church joins them in the celebration and
we are one with them. So, we first of all thank God that a few of them,
just 21 were released.
“The Chibok girls need medical
assistance; the government is doing that already. They have been taken
to hospital. I think they will need psychological rehabilitation. The
government need to bring in experts to stabilise them because they must
have gone through a lot of trauma.
“Now, coming back, I don’t think they
will be their normal selves any longer. So, the Chibok girls need to be
psychologically brought back to their real life. And we need to pray for
them; the church will be very happy to do that.
“We keep praying for the release of the
rest because they are human beings to be respected. The life of one
person is as important as the lives of the whole nation, which must be
respected.”
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