Reverend (Dr) Stephen Panya Baba, President of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), has said that the church has lost confidence in the Nigerian government and troops to save Leah Sharibu and others still in the custody of the Boko Haram insurgents..

The Reverend speaking to newsmen in Jos said “We keep on reemphasizing that if the federal government is able to negotiate the release of Zainab and other girls, we don’t see why it should not be successful in the negotiation towards the release of Leah Sharibu”

Reverend Baba stated that the federal government has not done enough that could aid the release of Leah together with Alice, one of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) nurses abducted by the insurgents, while adding that the church is only hoping for God's intervention to save Leah and others.

 “We have reached a point where our hope and assurances from the Federal government don’t even mean anything to us again; we are now depending on God.

“We are praying that God should intervene, if the Lord still uses Nigeria government glory be to Him but in term of really having confidence in the government, our confidence over this period has been eroded.

“We are calling on the International community to come in and do something, maybe pressure from the international community will spur the government to do what it supposed to do,” Reverend Baba said.

He maintained that the abducted victims’ families are always depressed.

 “Leah is member of this church likewise Alice, a lady Nurse with the UNICEF who was also captured by the Boko Haram while Leah parents are in pain and agony, Alice husband and children are also in pain and agony.

“The last time I visited the family of Alice, her husband told me he is running out of story to tell the children as to when their mother will return,” he said.

The ECWA president denounced the federal government for the inability to save these abducted victims, urging that the government should have successfully discussed the release of Leah together with other abducted girls.

 “The best of the Federal Government is not the best; their best over this issue can only be commended if Leah Sharibu, Alice and others are released from the captivity.