The Gombe State Government said it would use the Children’s Day celebration to pray for the release of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls of Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Bornot State and others killed at the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi, Yobe State.
The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hajiya Fatima Abubakar, who made this known to newsmen in Gombe on Monday, said the children would gather at the stadium to offer the prayer.
Ababukar said the state government cancelled the fanfare associated with the Children’s Day celebration because of the security challenges in the North-East.
She said: “This year, we are dropping all the fanfare and celebration.
“The children are going to commiserate and show sympathy to what has happened to their colleagues.”
She said prayers had been held in mosques and churches for the same purpose.
The Children’s Day is celebrated every May 27.
The theme of the 2014 edition is: “Unite for Peace of Nigeria, Unite for Children.”
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