Bill Text: OH HR428 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To express support for the provision of United States
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-1)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-27 - Adopted [HR428 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HR428-Introduced.html
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Representative Clyde
Cosponsors:
Representatives Antonio, Becker, Bishoff, Boyce, Budish, Cera, Curtin, Fedor, Foley, Gerberry, Hagan, R., Heard, Letson, Lundy, Mallory, Redfern, Reece, Slesnick, Stinziano, Strahorn, Williams
| To express support for the provision of United States | 1 |
| assistance to Nigeria in searching for the more | 2 |
| than 200 female students abducted by the terrorist | 3 |
| group Boko Haram. | 4 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| WHEREAS, On April 14, 2014, more than 200 teenage female | 5 |
| students were forcefully abducted from their dormitories at the | 6 |
| Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria by | 7 |
| the terrorist group known as Boko Haram; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Boko Haram claims full responsibility for this | 9 |
| heinous abduction and is threatening to sell the girls into sexual | 10 |
| slavery; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Boko Haram, which means "Western education is evil," | 12 |
| rejects Western culture, including the education of women and | 13 |
| girls. Boko Haram attempts to stifle the education of young | 14 |
| Nigerian women by inciting fear and violence; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, It has been reported that an additional eleven girls | 16 |
| were kidnapped from their villages on May 12, 2014, in the | 17 |
| northeastern province of Borno by men armed with AK-47s; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, The international community continues to express | 19 |
| outrage about the abduction of these young girls. President Obama | 20 |
| has therefore pledged military and law enforcement advisors to | 21 |
| Nigeria to support its efforts to find and free the girls, which | 22 |
| Nigeria has accepted; now therefore be it | 23 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the House of | 24 |
| Representatives of the 130th General Assembly of the State of | 25 |
| Ohio, urge the President of the United States to continue to | 26 |
| support the efforts of the Nigerian government to safely locate | 27 |
| the abducted girls and return them to their families; and be it | 28 |
| further | 29 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives send | 30 |
| duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of | 31 |
| the United States, the members of the Ohio Congressional | 32 |
| delegation, and the news media of Ohio. | 33 |
