On Wednesday, TheCable obtained a
video of of the aid workers who were kidnapped in Borno state last week.
She said she did not want to
share the same fate with previous victims who were killed because no one came
to their rescue.
Grace made reference to Hawa
Liman, also an aid worker, and Leah Sharibu, a secondary school student
kidnapped in Dapchi, Yobe state.
“The Nigerian government should
please do something to see that we are released because this has occurred
before… some ladies were caught, Hauwa and Ziphora, they also asked to be
released but because Nigeria did not do anything about it, they were killed. I
am begging on behalf of all of us here that please Nigerians should not allow
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,” she had said.
Action Against Hunger, the
non-governmental organisation that Grace worked for before her abduction, has
since confirmed the authenticity of the video.
MORE THAN A YEAR IN BOKO HARAM
CUSTODY
Sharibu was among the 112
kidnapped from their school — Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state — by
Boko Haram members on February 19, 2018.
While the others were later
brought home, Sharibu, now 16 years old, was held back for reportedly refusing
to denounce Christianity.
She had said: “I am Leah Sharibu,
the girl that was abducted in GGSS Dapchi. I am calling on the government and
people of goodwill to intervene to get me out of my current situation.
“I also plead to the members of
the public to help my mother, my father, my younger brother and relatives.
Kindly help me out of my predicament. I am begging you to treat me with
compassion, I am calling on the government, particularly, the president to pity
me and get me out of this serious situation.”
DEAD OR ALIVE?
Grace claim could not be immediately verified.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in
July restated his commitment to ensure Sharibu and other abductees reunite with
their families.
He had said: “We want to reassure
the affected families and friends that this administration will not relent in
its efforts to bring back all the remaining girls including Leah Sharibu, who
has become a postal child for the heinous activities of Boko Haram insurgency.
“We will reunite them with their
families and friends by the Grace of God.”
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