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Boko Haram: Buhari, Osinbajo, CAN under fire over rumours of Leah Sharibu’s death

 

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The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Gospel Church, Pastor Adewale Giwa has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo and the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, responsible if the rumour Leah Sharibu’s death turns out to be true.

A video emerged on Thursday, which content suggested that the Dapchi schoolgirl may have been slaughtered by her heartless Boko Haram captors.

The video released by Boko Haram had featured one Grace Taku, the aid worker kidnapped by the terrorists on July 18 who claimed that Shabiru has been killed.

 

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Pastor Giwa said that “If it turns out to be true that Leah Shabiru has been murdered, her blood will cry out for vengeance.”

Giwa stated this in a statement he signed and made available to DAILY POST on Thursday.

Miss Sharibu was among the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from Yobe State by the insurgents and the only Christian schoolgirl who was not released by the terrorists after the Federal Government negotiated the release of others.

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Her school friends later told of how Leah Shabiru refused to deny her Christian faith.

 

He said, “One should have wondered why Professor Osinbajo is still in the cabinet of Buhari when Christians are being slaughtered like animals under his watch.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? I still do not want to believe the story that Shabiru has been killed. However, if it turns out to be true, Nigerian government has again demonstrated its incompetence and negligence to protect citizens of the country.

“Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood, Acts 20:28 says.

 

Osinbajo is a Pastor, and he is also the one representing Christians in Buhari’s cabinet. It is painful that Christians are being killed and he has done nothing about it. By now, nobody should have told Professor Osinbajo to resign before doing so. Why?

“He reads and understands the word of God. If he had failed to watch over his people, what should be the line of action?

 

 

Presidency reacts to report on Leah Sharibu’s purported death

The Presidency has reacted to reports that Leah Sharibu, one of the Dapchi schoolgirls abducted last year has been killed.

Grace Taku, an aid worker with Non-Governmental Organisation, Action Against Hunger, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists on July 18, had claimed in a “proof of life video” that Leah alongside one Alice had been killed by the insurgents because of the Federal Government’s inability to “do something.

 

Although Taku did not expressly state whether it was Leah Sharibu or another Leah that was killed, many assumed immediately that it was Sharibu that was being referred to thereby causing shockwaves across social media.

In his reaction, however, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said in a Facebook post that negotiations for the release of all those in captivity were still ongoing.

 

Shehu, who did not say if Sharibu was alive or not, said the Presidency had been briefed on the matter and that action would be taken.

 

He wrote, “The Presidency has been briefed by the responsible government agency about the disturbing video showing our citizens, the humanitarian aid workers held captive. The Presidency has been given assurances that contact is being made and the captors are being talked to.

 

Beside these aid workers, there are some others about whom this engagement is about-Leah Sharibu, a religious leader and all the others. These discussions have been ongoing even before this time and what this latest incident has done is to bring urgency to the efforts that the secret service is making.

 

Government is making contacts, in the hope that the captors will see reason to not visit hardship or even harm on these innocent individuals.”

In the video which was released on Thursday, Taku also called on the Christian Association of Nigeria to come to her rescue.

 

 

The transcript of her appeal reads: “My name is Grace, I work with Action Against Hunger, an NGO in Borno State; my base is Damasak. We went to work on Thursday, July 18, 2019. On our way back to Damasak by Keneri/Chamba ward, we were caught by an army called the Kaliphas and they brought us here. We don’t know where we are.

I want to beg the Christian Association of Nigeria because I am the only Christian among the six of us here. I want to beg CAN to please do something about me to see how I can be released. I call on Borno State.

“I beg Action Against Hunger. We have families, some of us have children. We are Nigerians who are working for Nigerians. I am begging please, I am begging again; please do something to see that we are released because this has happened in the Red Cross before where some ladies were caught, Hauwa and Zipporah. They also asked to be released but because of Nigeria did not do anything about it, they were killed.

 

I am begging on behalf of all of us. I don’t want such to happen to us and it also happened again with Leah and Alice, because Nigeria could not do anything about them, they were not released they were also killed.”

 

 

 

 

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