Between February 19, 2018 when the Dapchi schoolgirls were
abducted by supposed Boko Haram insurgents and Wednesday, March 21, 2018, when
the news broke that 101 of them had been released, I had offered perspectives
on the incident in two articles. The first was titled: “Chibok and Dapchi girls: The whoredom of
Karma” while the second was titled: “Gbomogbomo as metaphor.”
The second article, in
particular, provides the take-off point for the current intervention. Therein,
I had expressed a concern at the role abductions of schoolgirls play in our
presidential politics. My thesis was that our
abducted schoolgirls in the northeast zone have become objects of political
bargain in the hands of our modern day real or prearranged gbomogbomo, a Yoruba word transliterated as stealer
of children.
