October Deadline: Leah Sharibu’s Parents Beg Buhari to Save Her

• Boko Haram commander, who planned to free 300 captives, killed for treachery

Seriki Adinoyi in Jos

Following the October deadline given by Boko Haram, which said after that date Leah Sharibu, the last of the abducted 110 Dapchi schoolgirls still in captivity, will be slain if their demands were not met, her parents, Mr. Nathan Sharibu, and his wife, Rebecca, have cried out to the Federal Government to help secure her release by meeting the insurgents’ demands. Addressing a press conference yesterday in Jos, the Plateau State capital, Mrs. Sharibu, wept bitterly, saying, “If the Federal Government does not respond to the demands of the insurgents, my daughter might be killed.”

In a related development, a top commander in the camp of Mamman Nur, which is believed to be the deadliest faction of the Boko Haram terrorist group, was assassinated for…