I want to reach out and save the kidnapped Nigerian girls : President Obama

Hundreds of protesters demonstrate
outside the Nigeria Consulate in
South Africa to bring
attention to the girls
abducted in Nigeria.

President #Obama said he wakes up thinking of the #Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist extremists and facing a life as sex slaves, and wishes he “could reach out and save those kids.”
“We only need to look at today’s headlines — the devastation of Syria, the murders and kidnappings in Nigeria, sectarian conflict, the tribal conflicts — to see that we have not yet extinguished man’s darkest impulses,” Obama said at a Los Angeles fund-raiser late Wednesday.
“I have this remarkable title right now — president of the United States,” Obama said. “And yet every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria . . . there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids.”
Obama, speaking at an event for the Steven Spielberg-backed USC Shoah Foundation, was frustrated over the lack of a quick fix.
“Having to think through what levers, what power do we have at any given moment, I think, drop by drop by drop, that we can erode and wear down these forces that are so destructive, that we can tell a different story,” he said.
On Thursday, government soldiers arrived in the town of Chibok, where 276 girls (#Bringbackourgirls) were kidnapped on April 14 by members of the brutal Boko Haram terror group, which threatened to sell them as sex slaves or force them into marriage.

The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau.Photo: AP

“There are about three military helicopters hovering around our town and many soldiers have just arrived,” said Maina Chibok, whose 16-year-old daughter is in the extremists’ hands.
“They are moving and advancing toward the bush. We hope they succeed in rescuing our daughters.”
Secretary of State John Kerry said a small team of US advisers was in place to help the Nigerians.
And Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed that the schoolgirls would be found.
“I believe the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria,” Jonathan said at Thursday’s opening of the World Economic Forum for Africa in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
Source: NYPost