Fact Check
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Were there more than 300 schoolgirls
abducted? How many girls were at the
school on night of April 14? Officials are still
unclear, but the best figure is that around
360 were present at the school when the
attack happened appears the most accurate
(Aminu Abubakar, April 2015.) In addition
to those 300 first kidnapped, hundreds more
like them have also been taken from schools
around Nigeria (Aminu Abubakar, April
2015.) This statement is true.
More than 1 million tweets throughout the
last three years. The campaign started in
Africa and extended outward, many people
tweeting from different countries including
America and Europe. Though there probably
have been more than a million tweets, the
majority of the tweets haven’t been totally
based on the actual campaign to bring back
the kidnapped Nigerian girls. The twitter
page #bringbackourgirls has only been
retweeted 11,000 times. (Peter Cunliffe-Jones
October 2015) This statement is partly true.
Local activists started # campaign #bringbackourdaughters. Two mothers started the
campaign when the first group of girls were
taken, hoping to spread the word and nudge
someone into action against Boko Haram
(Aminu Abubakar, April 2015, pg 1) This
statement is true.
The kidnapping continues to happen, and
will continue. According to africacheck.org
In addition to those abducted and still held
from the 2014 raid in Chibok, it is important to note that many thousands of other
Nigerians have been abducted over the past
six years by the group. At least 2,000 women and children have been taken since the
beginning of 2014, many of them co-opted
into battle or sexual slavery, Amnesty International claims. Boys, too, are conscripted as
fighters (Aminu Abubakar, April 2015, pg 1).
This statement is true.
Key: Blue = Partly True
Green = True
Red = False
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