Rebecca Sharibu has sued the
federal government for failing to secure the release of Leah, her daughter.
Leah Sharibu was among the 119
students of Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state, abducted by
Boko Haram in February.
All the abducted girls were
subsequently released, except five who reportedly died in detention.
Leah was held back by the
insurgent group for “refusing to renounce her faith”.
Joined as defendants in the suit
are Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, and Abubakar Malami,
attorney-general of the federation.
The suit was jointly filed with
Daniel David Kadzai and Lift-Up-Now Incorporation, a US-based organisation.
A copy of the suit dated
September 19, 2018, with no FCH/L/cs/1528/18, was made available to journalists
on Tuesday.
Among the prayers the plaintiff
sought from the court is an order “directing and mandating the defendants to
secure the immediate and unconditional release of the plaintiff from the
custody of her captors forthwith”.
The plaintiff is also seeking “an
order compelling the defendants to employ every means in securing the plaintiff
from the custody of her captors; an order compelling the defendants to pay the
plaintiff the sum of N500 million being compensation for the indignities and
human deprivations suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the defendants’
dereliction of statutory duties in securing her release from her captors since
the month of February, 2018 till date of this action”.
The Islamic State West Africa
Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram, has kept Leah in captivity for seven
months, sparking public outrage.
In August, an
audio of Sharibu appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue her was released.
The federal government had said
it was making efforts to secure her release.
But in a recent interview with
Voice of America (VOA), Nathaniel Sharibu, the girl’s father, said no
government official has reached out to the family since the kidnap incident.
Recall some suspected robbers recently
broke into her parents’ residence in Borno.
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