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The ECWA Church has declared a three-day fasting and prayer for the release of Leah Sharibu, one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at the Girls Technical School, Dapchi, Yobe Sharibu, who was abducted along with 115 other girls last month, is the only student still in the captors’ custody.

The sect was said to have refused to release her because she rejected the option of denouncing her Christian faith in order to regain freedom.

The federal government has promised to ensure her release, with government officials stating that negotiations were ongoing toward securing her freedom.

At the end of a four-day general church council meeting in Jos, Plateau state, Jeremiah Gado, ECWA president, announced the church’s resolve to seek God’s intervention for Sharibu.

Gado, who read the communique to reporters on Friday, directed members to also use the period to pray for God’s intervention in the security and economic situations of the country.

According to him, the fasting and prayer will start on April 27 and end on April 29, 2018.

“The fasting and prayer will be rounded off with special Church services in all ECWA Church branches the world over, on April 29,” he said.

The church asked the federal government to also ensure the release of the remaining Chibok girls in captivity and called for stringent measures to end such abductions.

The church endorsed the call by eminent Nigerians asking citizens to defend themselves, and challenged government to make that unnecessary by protecting Nigerians from such invaders.