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The Bring Back Our Girls campaigners say they will resume a fresh round of protest to demand the release of the remaining 196 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014.

The group, in a statement on Tuesday, said the protest will commence on January in commemoration of the 1000th day since the girls were abducted.

“Painfully, we are only a few days away from#Day1000 of their tragic abduction with no communication nor clarification nor status report on the negotiation the federal government previously stated was ongoing for the release of the remaining 196 girls still with terrorists,” the group said.

“Our movement is therefore again constrained to resume our marches to mark the #DAY1000 tragic milestone. Our movement expects the President to regard the #Day1000 milestone as an overdue time to bring this horrific saga to a final closure.”

The group says its campaigners will begin a series of activities for one week to ask the government to do more to release the remaining girls.

“We shall therefore carry out a series of activities for a period of one week, using our 24-hourly marches to compel our federal government to accelerate the decision and actions necessary to bring back the rest of our Chibok girls to their grossly disappointed parents.”

“Unlike our other global weeks of action carried out over the last thirty-two months of our advocacy, the#Day1000 version in Abuja shall be themed along various issues related to our #ChibokGirls.

“However, it shall principally be powered by a 24-hourly march to the entrance of the State House. What this means is that we shall relocate our daily sit-out venue from the Unity Fountain to the State House for the Global Week of Action starting from Sunday 8th of January to Saturday 14th January, 2017.