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Suspected thieves broke into the residence of the parents of Leah Sharibu, the only student of Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state, still in Boko Haram captivity.
Leah is one of the 119 students abducted from the school by a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province. Followimg negotiations between the Federal Government and the terrorists, all the girls who were captured were released, except five who reportedly died in detention, but Leah was held back for “refusing to renounce her faith”.
Reports said thieves invaded her parents home on Monday and carted away the family’s belongings, including food stuff and a generator set.
Leah’s mother had just returned from dropping her only son at school for resumption on Monday, only to discover the house has been burgled.
No one was confirmed to have been attacked during the incident.
Leah was recently seen in a video released by the terrorist, pleading with the Federal Government to save her and help her parents.
READ: Leah Sharibu speaks from captivity, begs Buhari to save her
The federal government had said it was making efforts to secure her release.
But in an interview with Voice of America, the Nathaniel Sharibu, the girl’s father, said no government official has reached out to the family since the kidnap incident.
“Since when they took these children from the school, the principal of the school, the chairman of Dapchi, the state government of Yobe and the federal government of Nigeria, none of them asked me about this issue up till now; none among them ask me about this girl,” he was quoted as saying.
“None of them has ever told me but I usually hear that they are trying to rescue her but as her father, no official called to tell me that this is what we are planning in order to rescue your daughter.”