Shield also submitted letters of appeal to the United Nations, the United States Embassy and the United Kingdom High Commission, urging the international community to help draw attention to the plight of the victims and support efforts to secure their freedom.
A Nigerian activist, Henry Shield, on Tuesday staged a one-man protest at the United Nations office in Abuja, calling for urgent international intervention to secure the release of dozens of schoolchildren and teachers abducted in Oyo State who have remained in captivity for weeks.
Shield also submitted letters of appeal to the United Nations, the United States Embassy and the United Kingdom High Commission, urging the international community to help draw attention to the plight of the victims and support efforts to secure their freedom.
"Today, I had a One-Man Protest at the United Nations Office, Abuja to appeal for international support in rescuing our children currently in captivity with kidnappers. The world should not abandon us at this time. Every parent, every human must speak out. Our children must be brought back home," he said.
In a petition addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Malick Fall, Shield described the continued captivity of the children as a humanitarian emergency.
