In the last edition of CA!, we featured Leah Sharibu who has
been in the custody of Islamic terrorists since February 19. She had the opportunity to be released with
her 105 Moslem school mates - on the disgusting condition that she renounce
Christ and embrace Islam. Leah preferred
captivity or death to doing that! She
marked her 15th
birthday in the enclave of the islamists on May 14.
Eight months after the abduction, government finally found time to contact the
family. The President himself put in a phone
call to Leah’s mother on October 3 while an official delegate led by the
Minister of Information also paid a physical
visit. Many people see it all as part
of October 1 politicking, especially with the race for 2019 steaming up.
Things have been extra-tough for
the young lady in recent times. At the
expiry of deadlines which government could not meet, two health workers in the
custody of the same gang that abducted Leah were summarily killed
in cold-blood, despite pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross
for which the ladies were working as volunteers. Leah herself was pronounced a slave, till
government would yield to the terms being demanded. It is evident that the
Islamic terrorists are making possibly outrageous demands including both ransom
money as well as release of key terrorists in government custody. Whereas it is quite possible that insiders
from government were deeply involved in the abduction saga to start with, it
now looks increasingly clear things have been taken out of their hands.
As things are now, the intervention
of the Almighty God is direly needed to turn the table against those who see
all these as one fabulous gold-mining operation. At least on two occasions,
such evil operators sponsored wide-spread rumours, falsely claiming Leah had
been released. All these were obviously
meant to further complicate the matter to the benefit of the terrorists. So we request that all Christian people keep
this young champion of the faith in mind, and continually keep up prayers for
her. The God Who secured the release of
Peter from imminent death, in response to the prayers of the saints is still
alive and on His throne! (Acts 12:5-11)
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