Akeem Lasisi makes case for remaining captives in new poetry video

Efficiency poet and journalist Akeem Lasisi has known as on the Federal Authorities and different stakeholders to accentuate the seek for the remaining Chibok Women within the captivity of Boko Haram.

The award-winning poet does this in his newly launched video of ‘Ẹyẹ Ìgbò: For Chibok Women, a monitor off his 2024 album titled ‘Òrèrè: A Present of Poems’.

The harmless schoolgirls, popularly known as Chibok Women, had been kidnapped from the Authorities Women Secondary Faculty, Chibok Native Authorities Space of Borno State, on April 14 2014, making at present, 14 April 2025, the eleventh yr of the assault.

Nigeria has had three Presidents since then — Goodluck Jonathan, who was in energy in 2014, Muhammadu Buhari and now Bola Tinubu.

Efforts made by all, deploying army may and diplomacy, led to the discharge or return of among the victims, however a very good quantity are nonetheless being held.

As of April 2024, Premium Instances reported that, of the 276 women seized by Boko Haram,  128 had regained freedom in batches over 9 years, whereas the whereabouts of 91 others stay unknown.

Official figures, nonetheless, later indicated that 187 had been launched.

In ‘Ẹyẹ Ìgbò: For Chibok Women’, Mr Lasisi laments the destiny of these nonetheless in bondage simply as he sympathises with their dad and mom and different family members who stay with the nightmare of their absence.

Within the video now on Akeem Lasisi & the Songbirds on YouTube, an affected mom and her two neighbours are seen in a particular prayer session for her kidnapped gem, whereas the poet leads a civilian ‘JTF’ squad into ‘Sambisa’ forest, on the lookout for the captives. An interaction of the sorrowfully chanted ‘ẹyẹ Igbo’ music, taken from a Yoruba folklore, and Lasisi’s vital poem establishes the infinite, painful anticipation the victims’ dad and mom and lots of different involved individuals have for the return of the remaining Chibok Women.

When the album was launched final yr, Mr Lasisi had mentioned on the monitor: “I nonetheless really feel pained like many different involved individuals. One of the simplest ways to really feel what the remaining abductees and their dad and mom are going by is to think about the tragedy occurring to 1. Think about having one’s daughter or son – or each within the jaws of terrorists, someplace within the nameless bush, not only for a month or a yr, however for 10 lengthy years. This can be very painful.”

He, nonetheless, famous that producing the monitor for Chibok women was a supply of reduction to him as a result of making a case for such embattled younger ones was a debt that whoever had a voice ought to pay by some means.