Minister of Women Affairs Paulen Tallen Monday fought back tears over the fate of Leah Sharibu and some other Chibok girls still held in captivity by the Boko Harma fighters.
“If you come to my office, you will see photographs of where I have visited Leah Sharibu’s parents and I have reached out to support them. Anything I put forward to Mr. President’s desk concerning them, he approves.
“You can also see in one of the photographs the helicopter and the security personnel Mr. President approved for me to go to Chibok and I have gone there three times.
“Leah Sharibu’s parents are not in Chibok but the military made arrangements for me to see them at the Airforce Base in Yola due to security concerns,” the minister said.
She stated this in Abuja while responding to a question on what government was doing to get the girls freed from their captors.
The media parley, which was aired live on both the NTA and FRCN, was put together by the Federal Ministry of Information to showcase the activities of the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government in the last seven years.
Sharibu, a Christian by faith, was abducted February 19, 2018, by the insurgents alongside over a hundred girls.
Although a large number of girls had regained their freedom, Leah was said to be held back because she refused to abandon her faith.
About 100 girls are yet to be released of the 276 female students kidnapped in April 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state.
