The Coalition of United Political
Parties has expressed concern over the Federal Government’s alleged silence
over Leah Sharibu who is still being
held captive by Boko Haram.
Leah Sharibu was one of the 110
pupils of Government Girls’ Science and
Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, abducted by the insurgents in 2018.
The terrorists freed others but held
on to Sharibu because she refused to renounce her Christian faith.
The Deputy National Spokesman for
the CUPP, Mark Adebayo, told Saturday
PUNCH on Friday that she might
be released “a few days to the elections to score a political point”.
He said, “As a parent, I am
personally saddened by the manner of the abduction of the Dapchi girls.
Politics apart, it was such a poor and fatal attempt at image laundering for a
clearly failed government. Till date, the government has not been able to
dispel the rumour of its collaborative culpability in the abduction of those
helpless kids.
“Any doubts about the
authenticity of that allegation and suspicion were removed when the terrorists
returned the kids in a convoy ride back into Dapchi exactly 30 days after the abduction.”
He added, “I have a feeling that
Leah is being used as a political bait. The government may arrange her f
reedom
a few days to the election to score a political point. But it matters not, just
get her released and stop behaving like Leah Sharibu doesn’t exist.
“The Muhammadu Buhari government
treats Leah Sharibu’s case as closed. That is an extremely unthinkable
treachery against a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Adebayo also faulted what he
described the precarious security situation in Nigeria and “government’s
cluelessness”.
He said, “The question you should
ask yourself is, why do our soldiers have to always be on the defensive while Boko
Haram is often on the offensive?”
He added, “Instead of the
military high command to launch a massive attack against the terrorists, they
are organising a python dance across the country, which is a poorly concealed
ploy to use the military to rig the presidential election through voter apathy.
“The open rigging of the Ekiti
and Osun states elections is still fresh in our memories, especially the
instigated violence that accompanied those elections.”
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