FG NOT COMMITTED TO RESCUING LEAH SHARIBU- MOTHER

Buhari Failed to Call for Seven Months

Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, the mother of Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgents, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of failing in his promise to secure her release. She said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), called her seven months after the abduction of her daughter and assured her of Leah’s quick release.

Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, who spoke in London in an interview on the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari did not contact her family until seven months after the pupils were taken away by the insurgents.

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Mrs. Sharibu said: “I have come to Britain to lay my complaints, I need their help. They should help me; I will like my daughter to be freed from captivity.

“My daughter was abducted among others by Boko Haram terrorists, it was seven months later that President Muhammadu Buhari called me.

“When he called me, he told me that my daughter would returned; that she would not stay long.

Two weeks after the President called, Rebecca said three ministers also visited her home and assured her of the President’s commitment to Leah’s safe return.

“The ministers said they were in my house to reassure me that my daughter would soon return. But since that day, I never heard anything again from the government.

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“My major worry now is for the government to do whatever possible and free my daughter from captivity. Because, I am seriously disturbed, but there is nothing I can do. If the government is doing nothing, what can I, an ordinary citizen, do?”

Leah Sharibu and 109 other female students of the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in 2018.While the insurgents released some of the girls, Leah Sharibu was held captive by the terrorist group and was reported to have been forcefully married to an insurgent.By February 2, 2020, Leah had spent two years with the insurgents.