Since the kidnappings, there have been many conflicting lines from the authorities on what exactly happened in Dapchi that Monday night. It wasn't until three days after the assault that they finally acknowledged some girls had been taken. It was another three days before they gave a number of how many were missing.
Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says the army and air force are in pursuit of the girls and are doing everything it can to find them. But most of the parents we spoke to don't feel they are doing enough.
"I don't know why the government has not reacted faster," said Zara's father Yussuf. "But these are not the children of senior politicians, they are the children of poor men."
Over the past week, the echoes of the Chibok kidnapping have never been far from people's minds - least of all the parents of Dapchi. Four years later, more than 100 of those girls are still missing.
The biggest fear of the families here is that they will also wait years until they see their daughters again - that is if they see them at all.
////////////////// During President Cyril Ramaphosa’s February 16 State of the Union address, he said his government will accelerate the land distribution program.
And last week, South Africa lawmakers voted 241-83 on a motion that would begin a constitutional amendment process of Section 25 that would make it possible to seize land from white owners to be transferred to black citizens without any financial compensation.
“We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land,” South Africa’s new President Cyril Ramaphosa said. He said he wanted to finally resolve racial disparities in land ownership, a move that opposition party Democratic Alliance party said will “undermine property rights and scare off potential investors.”
HISTORY To understand the overwhelming push for land reform in South Africa, one has to understand the history and the current political and socioeconomic climate in South Africa. Under European colonists, the Natives Land Act was passed. It essentially stripped away land ownership rights from most black people leaving only 7% to Africans and the more fertile land for whites.
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