Femi Fani-Kayode the former Nigeria Aviation Ministers and the former Director of Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck has lambasted Shehu Garba, the spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari for describing Leah Sharibu as the "unfortunate Christian girl stolen by Boko Haram".
Sharibu was kidnapped along with other 112 Dapchi schoolgirls on February 19, 2018 by Boko Haram Sharibu was reportedly not released along with the others because she refused to deny her christian faith.
In what look like a war of words between Reno Omokri the former spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan and Shehu Garba, the spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari. Femi Fani-Kayode described the statement by spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari as heartless, arrogant, insensitive and bigoted...
His facebook post read:
In response to a legitimate and interesting challenge from my friend and brother Pastor Reno Omokri, the former spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, Shehu Garba, the spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, has described the great Leah Sharibu as the "unfortunate Christian girl stolen by Boko Haram".
As far as he is concerned Leah has no name but she is just an "unfortunate Christian girl". The presidential spokesman is heartless, arrogant, insensitive and bigoted. Would he have spoken like this about Leah if she was a Muslim? Why did feel the need to mention her faith?
Does the fact that she is Christian make her a lesser Nigerian? Is she a chattel or a piece of property that can be described as being "stolen"? Is she not a human being too? Or is the fact that she is Christian or that she is a female make her less human? Nigerians deserve far better than this. The Christian community in Nigeria deserves far better too! This is an insult on every Christian and every right-thinking Nigerian.
May God judge and punish Shehu Garba and those he represents for speaking in this way about Leah, one of the greatest Christian heroes that Nigeria has ever known and a deeply courageous soul who sacrificed her liberty (and possibly her life) by standing proudly for her faith and refusing to convert to Islam even at the point of a knife and gun.
What we need in Nigeria are a few Samir Geagea's, the leader of the old Lebanese Kataeb Regulatory Forces and Christian Falange (Uwait).
If you want to know more about him and them and the role they played in fighting Islamic fundamentalism in the Lebanese civil war either google it or go to Lebanon and find out.
To attempt to insult, demean or belittle a Christian hero like Leah simply because you do not share her faith is inexcusable and unforgivable. This is the turning point and we will never forget it.
FFK.
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