{"id":67952,"date":"2019-07-26T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67952"},"modified":"2019-07-26T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:10:22","slug":"boko-haram-kidnapped-aid-worker-says-leah-sharibu-has-been-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/boko-haram-kidnapped-aid-worker-says-leah-sharibu-has-been-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Kidnapped Aid Worker Says Leah Sharibu Has Been Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m6976355736196036710\" class=\"mail-message \">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m590397770747885390\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>Grace Taku, the aid worker kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists on July 18, claimed that Leah Sharibu alongside one Alice has been killed by the insurgents because of the Federal Government of Nigeria\u2019s inability to \u201cdo something.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Leah Sharibu was among the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from Yobe State by the insurgents on February 18, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>She was the only Christian schoolgirl who was not released by the terrorists after the Federal Government negotiated the release of others.<\/p>\n<p>Taku made the claim in a new video released by the insurgents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The transcript of her appeal reads: \u201cMy name is Grace, I work with Action Against Hunger, an NGO in Borno State; my base is Damasak. We went to work on Thursday, 18th July 2019. On our way going Back to Damasak by Keneri\/Chamba ward, we were caught by an army called the Kaliphas and they brought us here. We don\u2019t know where we are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to beg the Christian Association of Nigeria because I am the only Christian among the six of us here.\u00a0I want to beg that CAN should please do something about me to see how I can be released. I call on Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI beg Action Against Hunger. We have families, some of us have children. We are Nigerians who are working for Nigerians. I am begging please, I am begging again, please do something to see that we are released because this has happened in the Red Cross before where some ladies were caught, Hauwa and Zipporah. They also asked to be released but because of Nigeria did not do anything about it, they were killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am begging on behalf of all of us. I don\u2019t want 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Taku, the aid worker kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists on July 18, claimed that Leah Sharibu alongside one Alice has been killed by the insurgents because of the Federal&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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