British Nigerians in south London tell of their shock and fear at the schoolgirl abductions by Boko Haram, and their worries for family back home
In the half-term holiday later this month, Nigerian-born Olu Alabe had been planning to take her daughters Jameera, four, and Jasmine, one back to west Africa to visit family. "We're not going now," she said. "There is no security, and how can you go when somebody might kidnap you? And where would my husband and I get money for a ransom? I will not put my girls at risk. What has happened to those poor girls is so sad.
"I have been thinking about it all the time and I find it so upsetting. It could be anybody's kids. I've been going in to check on my girls more every night, because it's all I can think about. It's terrible. The attitude of the Nigerian government is so very selfish they all have their kids safely tucked away in some private school."
