Leah’s 200 Days In Captivity Elicits Protests

Number one bestselling author and former aide to Ex-President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri; a British member of parliament, Liberal Democrat Tom Brake; another Briton, who worked as a missionary in Northern Nigeria 36 years ago, Graham Weeks, among many others, have variously continued to stage protests tagged ‘200-hour vigil campaign’ in front of the Nigeria High Commission in London to demand the release of kidnapped schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu.
Leah is being held captive by Boko Haram terrorists for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.
The Tide recalls that yesterday, made it 200 days that Leah Sharibu is being held by Boko Haram terrorists for refusing to accept Islam and renounce her Christian faith.
At the protest, Omokri, who led some of the protesters, said it was not a crime to remain a Christian.
He said the continued abduction of Leah was anti-Islam and that the teenage girl, whom he said was a very bright student, should be in school and not with the terrorists.
He, therefore, called on the Boko Haram sect to release her immediately.
The protesters also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to negotiate the release of Leah Sharibu at all cost.
Also, the Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who was also staging a sit-in outside the Nigerian High Commission in central London to put pressure on the Nigerian government, told newsmen that his protest would last 200 hours as Thursday marked 200 days since Sharibu, who turned 15 in captivity was taken.
According to him, “There cannot be a clearer example of someone whose human rights are being ignored than that of Leah, who is being detained just because she has maintained her Christian faith,” Brake said in an email interview with newsmen.
Recall that the Boko Haram terrorists had freed the other schoolgirls, numbering over 100, who were kidnapped with her but refused to release Leah because she refused to accept Islam and renounce her Christian faith.
Most of the students abducted from their boarding school in Dapchi village, Yobe State were released after four weeks.