The First Lady Marks Mother’s Day and Speaks Out on the Tragic Kidnapping in Nigeria
In this week’s address, First Lady Michelle Obama honors all mothers on this upcoming Mother’s Day and offers her thoughts, prayers, and support in the wake of the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.
In this week’s address, First Lady Michelle Obama honors all mothers on this upcoming Mother’s Day and offers her thoughts, prayers, and support in the wake of the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.
Michelle Obama has taken the rare step of delivering her husband's weekly video address to express outrage over the plight of more than 250 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria.
The US first lady began the address, which is broadcast on radio and uploaded to YouTube, by wishing Americans a happy Mother's Day, before saying: "Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night.
"This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education – grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls."
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in Chibok in remote northeastern Nigeria on 14 April and has threatened to sell them into slavery, while eight girls were taken from another village earlier this week.
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