Touching! See Mama G, Aki,Mercy Aigbe, Others March ForKidnapped Schoolgirls

In a bid to add their voices to the call for

the release of hundreds of schoolgirls

kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in

Chobok, Borno State, some Nollywood

stars led by Patience Ozokwor,

popularly called Mama G, on Thursday

staged a rally in Lagos, western

Nigeria.

NAN reports that the actors, which

included Chinedu Ikedieze, popularly

known as Aki, Ejiro Okurame, Mercy

Aigbe, Femi Ogedengbe, Thelma Okaz

and Tony Akposhere, marched from

Allen Avenue to Alausa Secretariat

soliciting for the release of the

abducted school girls.

While demonstrating earlier today, the

Nollywood actors said the march was

their own way of celebrating the

Democracy Day because they were

unhappy that the kidnapped school

children were still being held by the

Boko Haram sect.

The actors, who marched with various

placards with various inscriptions asking

for the release of the girls, were

addressed by the Speaker of Lagos

State House of Assembly, Mr Adeyemi

Ikuforiji

They pleaded for the release of the

girls by the Boko Haram sect.

While addressing the movie stars,

Ikuforiji commended the actors for

having the nation at heart and joining in

the clamour for the release.

The speaker also assured them that

government was doing its best to get

the girls released, while also promising

the actors that he would take their

request to the government.