Morgan State students protest Nigerian girls' kidnapping

BALTIMORE —There has been a worldwide outcry for the return of the missing Nigerian girls, with many people taking to Twitter with the hashtag "bring back our girls."

The passion and outrage at Morgan State University is so strong when it comes to those kidnapped Nigerian girls that just about 12 hours after Wednesday’s rally was conceived, nearly 100 people showed up to stand out in the rain and stand behind one goal: Push the U.S. government to take real action.

"To take a stand and really go in there not to ‘help,’ but to go in there to bring those girls back,” lead rally organizer Chinedu Nwokeafor said.

"The government of Nigeria is obviously overwhelmed," alumni Olakunle Fakiyesi said. "And two days ago, the same terrorists went back and took an additional nine girls. What are they trying to tell us? They are trying to tell us, 'Well, we got you and there's nothing you can do about it.'"

The demonstrators from across the student population and administration said they can do something: Keep talking about it. Organizers said it matters to students because Morgan State is not a campus that lives in a bubble.

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