[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 57 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H1713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
FIND THE CHIBOK GIRLS
(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, in the dark of night on this very day 2
years ago, young girls at the early ages of 11 to 17 were in
nightgowns, preparing for sleep, and were getting ready for the exams
that would open the doors of opportunity, as they were told by their
Nigerian parents. One daughter had rushed back to the school from a
weekend trip because her father said: You shouldn't be home. You must
go and take your exam.
That night, terrorists came and rounded them up and threatened them
and took them into the dark of the Nigerian bush in Borno State,
upwards of Abuja. They have now been gone for 2 years, the Chibok
girls.
I stood alongside Frederica Wilson and Lois Frankel when we went to
Nigeria within weeks of their kidnapping. Boko Haram, which is now
ISIL, and ISIL, which is now Boko Haram--the most dangerous terrorist
group in the world--will come to the shores of America if we are not
vigilant to find them and quash them.
We must find the Chibok girls. They deserve our constant refrain and
study to realize that it is terrorists who took them. We must bring the
terrorists down and find the Chibok girls to take them to their
families.
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