Leah Sharibu: Mother laments as daughter spends yuletide in captivity

Leah Sharibu’s mother, Rebecca, is worried that her daughter is spending the Yuletide in Boko Haram captivity despite the Federal Government’s promise to secure her release before now.

Her friend and senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Dr Gloria Samdi Puldu, made this known on Friday.

Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, who had been held in captivity since February 19, 2018 by Boko Haram terrorists on account of her Christian faith.

Speaking in an interview, Puldu stated that Rebecca Sharibu had been devastated and down with fever because “it has not been easy spending Christmas without Leah.”

She said the hope of the entire family was that the assurances that the Federal Government gave during the visit of the three ministers that Leah was going to be released would come true.

The UNIJOS don explained that since the visit and assurances, communication had been lost between the family of Leah Sharibu, her captors, the federal and Yobe State governments.