The Secretary to the Yobe State Government, Mohammed Goje, has disclosed that all the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, in 2018 have regained their freedom except Leah Sharibu, who remains in captivity.
Goje stated this in an exclusive interview with Arewa PUNCH on Tuesday while responding to questions bordering on Governor Buni-led administration’s seven years of governance since its inception in 2019.
According to the SSG, the Dapchi girls’ incident is no longer a major issue before the state government because all the abductees, except Sharibu, had been released before the current administration came into office in 2019.
He said, “For the Dapchi girls, except for Leah Sharibu, who, I believe, is still in captivity, the Dapchi girls have all been rescued even before 2019. So, that story is a past one because all of them regained their freedom before this administration came on board.”
Our correspondent reports that Sharibu, a Christian among the 110 schoolgirls abducted by insurgents from the Dapchi school in February 2018, was reportedly held back after refusing to renounce her Christian faith, while the remaining girls were released about a month after the abduction.
