Boko Haram executes another aid worker, to keep Leah Sharibu as slave
Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:01:am National
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An aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who had been abducted earlier this year, has been executed by a faction of insurgent militia Boko Haram with affiliation to the Islamic State, according to reports from online news organisation, TheCable, late Monday.
Hauwa Liman, abducted in March by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), was killed by the terrorist group following the expiration of a deadline given to the Federal Government for their demands to be met.
The report quotes a short statement from ISWAP, "We have kept our word exactly as we said, by killing another humanitarian worker, Hauwa Leman, who is working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that were abducted during a raid on a military facility in Rann, Kala Balge in March 2018.
"Saifura and Hauwa were killed because they are considered as Murtads (apostates) by the group because they were once Muslims that have abandoned their Islam, the moment they chose to work with the Red Cross, and for us, there is no difference between Red Cross and UNICEF.
"If we see them, we will kill the apostates among them, men or women, and chose to kill or keep the infidels as slaves, men or women."
Saifura Ahmed, one of three aid workers abducted by ISWAP, was reportedly killed in September.
Condemning the killing of Hauwa Liman, Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed in a statement called the action dastardly, inhuman and ungodly.
In the statement issued in London, he said the government is shocked and saddened at the killing of the aid worker despite actions it had taken and a widespread appeal to save the young woman.
"It is very unfortunate that it has come to this," he decried. "Before and after the deadline issued by her abductors, the Federal Government did everything any responsible government should do to save the aid worker."
Mr Mohammed added, "As we have been doing since these young women were abducted, we kept the line of negotiations open all through. In all the negotiations, we acted in the best interest of the women and the country as a whole."
"We are deeply pained by this killing, just like we were by the recent killing of the first aid worker. However, we will keep the negotiations open and continue to work to free the innocent women who remain in the custody of their abductors."
ISWAP also threatened to keep both Alice Ngaddah (the remaining aid worker, a christian, working with UNICEF) and Leah Sharibu (the only christian girl among the 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls not released) as a slave.
The group wrote in the statement: "From today, Sharibu and Ngaddah are now our slaves".
"Based on our doctrines, it is now lawful for us to do whatever we want to do with them," the group further said.
Hauwa Liman, abducted in March by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), was killed by the terrorist group following the expiration of a deadline given to the Federal Government for their demands to be met.
The report quotes a short statement from ISWAP, "We have kept our word exactly as we said, by killing another humanitarian worker, Hauwa Leman, who is working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that were abducted during a raid on a military facility in Rann, Kala Balge in March 2018.
"Saifura and Hauwa were killed because they are considered as Murtads (apostates) by the group because they were once Muslims that have abandoned their Islam, the moment they chose to work with the Red Cross, and for us, there is no difference between Red Cross and UNICEF.
"If we see them, we will kill the apostates among them, men or women, and chose to kill or keep the infidels as slaves, men or women."
Saifura Ahmed, one of three aid workers abducted by ISWAP, was reportedly killed in September.
Condemning the killing of Hauwa Liman, Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed in a statement called the action dastardly, inhuman and ungodly.
In the statement issued in London, he said the government is shocked and saddened at the killing of the aid worker despite actions it had taken and a widespread appeal to save the young woman.
"It is very unfortunate that it has come to this," he decried. "Before and after the deadline issued by her abductors, the Federal Government did everything any responsible government should do to save the aid worker."
Mr Mohammed added, "As we have been doing since these young women were abducted, we kept the line of negotiations open all through. In all the negotiations, we acted in the best interest of the women and the country as a whole."
"We are deeply pained by this killing, just like we were by the recent killing of the first aid worker. However, we will keep the negotiations open and continue to work to free the innocent women who remain in the custody of their abductors."
ISWAP also threatened to keep both Alice Ngaddah (the remaining aid worker, a christian, working with UNICEF) and Leah Sharibu (the only christian girl among the 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls not released) as a slave.
The group wrote in the statement: "From today, Sharibu and Ngaddah are now our slaves".
"Based on our doctrines, it is now lawful for us to do whatever we want to do with them," the group further said.
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