Kidnapped UNIMAID Lecturer Dr. Solomon Writes Letter to Wife from Boko Haram Den

Dr. Solomon N. Yusuf, one of the four lecturers of the University of Maiduguri who was abducted by Boko Haram terrorist during an oil exploration in born has sent a letter to his wife Hannatu.

The letter which dated September 4 saw the lecturer calling on the federal government to speed up its process of negotiating for their release after informing his wife that he alive and well.

In the note he revealed that his wife just had a baby and requested that his father named his new born baby in his absence. The lecturer who also has three children asked if they were all right.

Read excerpts from letter below:

“I want to emphasize that delay in getting our freedom poses risk to our dear lives. We never expected we would spend over 42 days (as at 4 September) in captivity because the project has presidential orders to explore hydrocarbon in the Chad Basin.

The government should please continue negotiating with the present contact given to them by the University of Maiduguri as a means of contacting soldiers of Khalifa under the leadership of Abu Mus’ab Albarnawi.

We plead with the government to treat our freedom with all sense of urgency and sympathy so that that we can be reunited with our families. The use of force is a serious threat to our lives.”

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Dr. Yusuf also called on members of the abductees’ families to weigh in with pressure on the authorities of University of Maiduguri and the Federal Government for their freedom.

Dr. Yusuf thanked the national and University of Maiduguri chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for calling for their release, especially for including their matter as one of the reasons for the ongoing national strike by members of the union.

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