Lagos, Nigeria, Feb 23, 2021 / 19:49 pm
Three years after Leah Sharibu was abducted from her school in Dapchi in Yobe State within Nigeria's Diocese of Maiduguri, the Archbishop of Lagos has called on the country's head of state to "do all in his power … to secure her release."
In a Feb. 20 statement by the Director of Social Communications of Lagos Archdiocese, Fr. Anthony Godonu, Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins says "it is sad" that the Nigerian school girl is still being held, three years after she was kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents.
Archbishop Adewale urges President Muhammadu Buhari to "do all in his power as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the one from whom all other security agencies take their orders, to secure her release."
Leah is among the 110 girls abducted from the Government Girls' Science and Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi in Yobe State by members of the Boko Haram militia Feb. 19, 2018.