Former presidential aide, Reno
Omokri, has condemned the Buhari government for accusing Leah Sharibu’s mother,
Rebecca Sharibu, of being a liar.
He described the government as
evil, saying it was “a biased government making it difficult to profess and live
our life as a genuine follower of Christ.”
Rebecca had spoken in the United
States, at the Heritage Foundation on June 11, 2018, where she testified that
both her and her daughter are victims of “religious persecution” and that she
had not heard from the Nigerian government for months about efforts to rescue
her daughter, after President Muhammadu Buhari promised to do his best to
secure her release.
In a statement on Sunday, Omokri
said it was obvious and the denial by the Buhari junta of this truth casts
suspicion on the genuineness of their efforts to Free Leah Sharibu and bring
her abductors to justice.
“Let us examine Rubecca’s claims.
One, she said that both her family and her daughter are victims of religious
persecution. Is that a lie?
“The ONLY reason why Boko Haram
released 104 other girls and kept Leah Sharibu back is that she refused to deny
her faith in Jesus Christ and accept Islam. Is that not a textbook definition
of religious persecution?
“Secondly, we see how slow the
Buhari regime has been to assist Leah’s family. This is in sharp contrast to
the case involving Zainab Aliyu, a Muslim girl who was caught with tramadol in
Saudi Arabia. The usually slow General Muhammadu Buhari became a superhero and
personally engaged in diplomacy with his Saudi counterparts until Zainab was
released.
“The fact is that Muhammadu
Buhari has failed to show this same urgency in the case of Leah Sharibu,
despite the fact that his government once publicly boasted of having “back
channels” (their exact words) to Boko Haram.
“On the second claim that she had
not heard from the Buhari administration on the release of her daughter for
months, this is a self-evident fact.
“General Buhari read in the
papers and saw on video that I, Reno Omokri, placed a call to Rubecca Sharibu
on September 6, 2018 while protesting to mark the 200th day anniversary of Leah
Sharibu’s abduction, in front of the Nigerian High Commission in London. He saw
an opportunity to politic and in a copy cat move, he copied my gesture on October
3, 2018 and called Rubecca Sharibu.
“Since that day, neither General
Muhammadu Buhari nor his government or privies have been in touch with Rubecca
to brief her on efforts, if any, to rescue her daughter.
“From the above facts, it should
be clear who is the liar between the Buhari administration and the Sharibu
family.
“I am personally aware that the
Buhari administration is hell-bent on criminalising anyone fighting for Leah
Sharibu’s release.
“I call on the world to note that
rather than prosecute members of Boko Haram, the group which abducted Leah
Sharibu, the Buhari regime has freed over a thousand Boko Haram members
captured by the previous administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan,
on the pretext that they were repentant.
“One of such released Boko Haram
members went on to rejoin the terror group and lead an attack that killed
personnel of the United Nations.
“Currently, the Buhari
administration is rewarding herdsmen, who have killed tens of thousands of
Nigerians by building them so-called Ruga settlements nationwide at government
expense.”
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