As Chibok, Dapchi representatives pray for release of Leah Sharibu at Synagogue Lagos – Representatives of Chibok in Borno and Dapchi in Yobe on Sunday sought spiritual help at The Synagogue, the Church of All Nations, at Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos to pray for the release of Leah Sharibu and other students kidnapped by Boko Haram.
The representatives
who carried several placards told the General Overseer, Prophet Temitope
Joshua, that they were at The Synagogue because they had exhausted all
human efforts to get the students released. A spokesman of the
representatives told Prophet Joshua that the father of Leah Sharibu
could not come with them because he had been bedridden by stroke, as a
result of the kidnap of her daughter.
He said they had been watching
his ministry through Emmanuel Television (the church’s cable TV) and all
the help he had rendered to the sick and the less privileged, hence
their joint visit to plead for intercessory prayers for the release of
the students. The spokesman said they had no doubt that with the
approval of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God could trigger the
release of the remaining students kidnapped in 2014 and 2018. Prophet
Joshua told them that there was nothing impossible in the sight of the
Creator of Heaven and Earth
He urged the congregation and viewers
of Emmanuel Television worldwide to pray and fast on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday, this week, for the release of the remaining students. He
said that “there is nothing God cannot do” and urged all to see the
prayer and fasting on the mentioned days as an assignment. Some of the
placards read: Please intercede on our behalf for the release of Leah
Sharibu; The remaining 112 students kidnapped in Chibok are yet to be
released, please help, among others. On April 14, 2014, 276 female
students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok in
Borno State. Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko
Haram, an extremist terrorist organization based in North eastern
Nigeria.
Since 2014, 164 of the students had regained their freedom, while 112 are still held by Boko Haram.
Also
on Feb. 19, 2018, no fewer than 110 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the
Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls’ Science and
Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, located in Bulabulin, Yunusari Local
Government area of Yobe State. One hundred and nine of the students were
released, except Leah Sharibu, who was said to have refused to denounce
Christianity.
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