The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has added his voice to the global condemnation of the abduction of the over 200 Nigerian girls by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
Nana Addo in a series of tweets said, \u2018\u2019the abduction of at least 276 innocent Nigerian school girls is a great tragedy and an outrage.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Nana Addo who himself has five daughters condemned the act of Boko haram. \u2018\u2019I have five daughters and can imagine the anguish their parents are going through,\u2019\u2019 he tweeted.<\/p>\n
He expressed empathy to the families of the girls, Nigerian people and the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n
He went on to appeal to Islamic leaders across the world to \u2018\u2019put pressure on Boko Haram\u2019\u2019 to release the innocent girls.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019Let Islamic authorities, the world over, put pressure on Boko Haram to release these girls; this is not the way to go,\u2019\u2019 Nana tweeted.<\/p>\n
According to him everything must be done to ensure the safe return of the girls to carry on with their lives and education.<\/p>\n
The former Ghanaian legislature further said, \u2018\u2019it will be good to see the #AU<\/a> and #ECOWAS<\/a> exerting pressure to ensure a speedy resolution.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n He however, noted that it was a delight to see the World has woken up to its responsibilities in this matter [kidnapping of the school girls].<\/p>\n The abduction of the girls in Nigeria has led to some protests across Nigeria and other countries.<\/p>\n Some persons have also accused the Nigerian government\u2019s slow response to the incident. Nigeria is currently receiving support from the international community to find and rescue the young girls.<\/p>\n Solidarity for the girls has been global and the actions of Boko Haram continue to be condemned globally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By : Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has added his voice to the global condemnation of the abduction of the over 200 Nigerian girls by the terrorist group, Boko Haram. Nana Addo in a series of tweets said, \u2018\u2019the abduction of at least 276 innocent Nigerian school girls is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[255,43,436,38,540],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-airtel","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghna-news","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-special-prosecutor-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}