The Senate has asked the Federal Government to expedite action on finding ways to free Leah Sharibu from the clutches of her abductors. Leah a student
The Senate has asked the Federal Government to expedite action on finding ways to free Leah Sharibu from the clutches of her abductors. Leah a student of Science Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe State, has been in captivity of the Boko Haram insurgents since February last year when a splinter group of the terrorist group on 19 February 2018, abducted 115 girls from the school but released 109 a month after, claiming that five out of the abducted girls died in captivity while Leah Sharibu was held back for refusing to renounce her faith .
13 months after the Federal Government promised Leah’s parents that she would be released from captivity, nothing was being done on the issue with re-election matters taking center stage.
The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, drew the attention of his colleagues to Leah’s plight, through a point of order on Thursday, stressing the need to urge the Federal to expedite action on rescuing the girl.
“What perhaps may be the most important strategy to be adopted in getting Leah and others out of captivity is the option of dialogue with her abductors. It has worked in so many other places where similar abductions took place like Afghanistan, Pakistan and other nations being terrorised by the Talibans.
“Though government cannot be said not to have taken actions in getting Leah and others released, but there is need for it to redouble and expedite actions in that direction. This is because parents and relatives of the abductees should be freed from psychological trauma they must have been facing and for the abductees to know that they have a country that cares for them”
