Eight months after the abduction of Leah Sharibu, President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, assured Leah’s mother that his administration was making frantic efforts to bring her daughter back from the den of her captors.
This is even at the faction of Boko Haram resurgents who captured Leah, Dapchi Secondary school girl threatened to kill her this October if Federal Government does not negotiate for her release.
Speaking on phone with Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah, Buhari assured her that his administration will do everything within its powers to bring her daughter back home.
During the conversation Buhari was quoted to have said “The President consoles the Sharibu family and assures the parents that the Federal Government would do its best for the safety and security of Leah.”
In a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in Abuja, the President said: “I convey my emotion, the strong commitment of my administration and the solidarity of all Nigerians to you and your family as we will do our best to bring your daughter home in peace and safety.”
He assured the mother that his heart was with her family, adding that the entire nation was praying for the safe return of “our daughter, Leah.”
Recall that recently, the Boko Haram sect had given October 15 deadline to the federal government to come for her release or else she will be killed, if their demands were not met.
The threat prompted her parents, Mr. Nathan Sharibu, and his wife, Rebecca, to cry out to the Federal Government to help secure her release by meeting the insurgents’ demands.
Various religious bodies and pressure groups in the country have also prevailed on the Presidency to secure Leah’s release, accusing the All Progressives Congress-led government of being biased in fighting for the lone Christian girl’s release.
The leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, had on October 1, said there was nothing to celebrate in as much as the abducted Dapchi Christian girl and some other girls kidnapped by the Islamic sect were still in captivity.
On exactly February 19, 2018, 5:30 p.m, 110 schoolgirls, aged 11–19 years old, were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, located in Bulabulin, Yunusari Local Government area of Yobe State, in the North East part of Nigeria.
