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To express support for the provision of United States | 1 |
assistance to Nigeria in searching for the more | 2 |
than 200 female students abducted by the terrorist | 3 |
group Boko Haram. | 4 |
WHEREAS, On April 14, 2014, more than 200 teenage female | 5 |
students were forcefully abducted from their dormitories at the | 6 |
Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria by | 7 |
the terrorist group known as Boko Haram; and | 8 |
WHEREAS, Boko Haram claims full responsibility for this | 9 |
heinous abduction and is threatening to sell the girls into sexual | 10 |
slavery; and | 11 |
WHEREAS, Boko Haram, which means "Western education is evil," | 12 |
rejects Western culture, including the education of women and | 13 |
girls. Boko Haram attempts to stifle the education of young | 14 |
Nigerian women by inciting fear and violence; and | 15 |
WHEREAS, It has been reported that an additional eleven girls | 16 |
were kidnapped from their villages on May 12, 2014, in the | 17 |
northeastern province of Borno by men armed with AK-47s; and | 18 |
WHEREAS, The international community continues to express | 19 |
outrage about the abduction of these young girls. President Obama | 20 |
has therefore pledged military and law enforcement advisors to | 21 |
Nigeria to support its efforts to find and free the girls, which | 22 |
Nigeria has accepted; now therefore be it | 23 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the House of | 24 |
Representatives of the 130th General Assembly of the State of | 25 |
Ohio, urge the President of the United States to continue to | 26 |
support the efforts of the Nigerian government to safely locate | 27 |
the abducted girls and return them to their families; and be it | 28 |
further | 29 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives send | 30 |
duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of | 31 |
the United States, the members of the Ohio Congressional | 32 |
delegation, and the news media of Ohio. | 33 |