Augusta Olaore, Ph.D, a visiting professor at Southern Adventist University from Babcock University in Nigeria, chats with attendees Tuesday before speaking to a group at the Development Resource Center in Chattanooga.Nigerians are hurt and angry about the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from the northern part of the country, but they don’t know where to begin to get the girls back, said Augusta Y. Olaore, of Babcock University in Nigeria.
“They’re fighting against something that they can’t access,” she said. “If I know that behind that door there is my child, I’m going to hit on that door and pull it down. But I don’t know where to go. It’s like fighting an unseen enemy.”
Olaore, a visiting professor at Southern Adventist University, and her husband, Israel, a Babcock University administrator and Nigerian church pastor, spoke about the Nigerian girls’ abduction after a multicultural training seminar in Chattanooga on Tuesday.
It’s been a month since April 14 when Islamic extremist group Boko Haram took nearly 300 girls in the middle of the night from a college dormitory in Chibok, Nigeria. Boko Haram means “Western education is a sin,” according to news reports.
The Islamic group wants to convert the girls to Islam, give them in marriages and prevent them from getting an education. One leader in the Boko Haram said Allah said to sell the girls.