The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has officially announced that its aid worker, a 24-year-old Nigerian midwife Hauwa Mohammed Liman who was captured by Boko Haram in May has been killed by her abductors.


Reuters, in an updated report, revealed that Red Cross said this on Tuesday, October 16, during an interview session with Patricia Danzi, its regional director for Africa saying the death of Hauwa was because it failed to pay her ransom, adding that paying such a ransom would set a regrettable precedent for other 16,000 of its aid workers across 80 countries in the the world.


However, the Geneva-based aid agency said that though it was reluctant on paying Hauwa's ransom, it appealed to the the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), a faction of Boko Haram, to spare the life of the valiant aid worker.
“When health care workers are captured or abducted there is always a demand. We are a humanitarian organisation so we cannot enter into such kind of negotiations. So we always ask for unconditional release. And that’s what we did. That was the plea.


We believe that there is no cause that can justify an execution of a young healthcare staff (worker). We are now in a period of mourning...Then we will have to rethink what we can do. And the (security) guarantees we can get. Because we want to give humanity a chance, we want to be there for the people that still need our help.”


Nigeria is the ICRC’s second largest operation in Africa and its aid workers help 80,000 mainly displaced people in the northeastern town of Rann. Liman and two other Nigerian aid workers, Alice Loksha and Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, were working in Rann when they were kidnapped by ISWA in March. Saifura was killed in September.

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Atiku wee na come and promise us Blue Cross and Chelsea Jersey

I remember how you People praised buhari for handling Biafrans with soft hand during Biafran war that took not less than 3.1 million innocent women and children and men.

I don't like the fact that she died but I hope they have felt how we felt when they made that statement .Karma

Let them go

ICR is even there threatening? Does this government looks responsible & alive to it constitutional responsibility to them?

VOTE FOR THIS MAN TO STOP ALL THESE KILLINGS IN NIGERIA

Chai

Hmm

The annoying thing is the president doesn't even have respect for the deceased girl. Not even a statement from him. They should please go. This government is too foolish to know its priorities and set them right. Rubbish

What do these idiotic Boko Haram want?

How can a country fail so woefully in eradicating this level of insurgency for so long? Is Boko Haram really stronger than all Nigerian security and defence forces put together?

The worst thing is that these guys are not ready to negotiate and be paid off like the Niger Delta militants and Nnamdi Kanu (Yes, I believe he was paid off. A true Biafran revolutionary wouldn't shut up unless he's dead. Look at the fight Nelson Mandela put up even during years in prison and hard labout just for South African Independence).

Very good
Nigeria govt ain't serious

I wonder what they are doing in the shithole. The north created the monster that is eating us today.

Ok

Why won't they want to leave when the security guarantee is abysmal

And they should ,the north don’t need no help

may they souls rest in peace

The Nigerian government isn't respecting the lives of her citizens. At this time, I was expecting we should have gone past boko haram. It is unfair the government isn't doing enough to nip this in the bud. If Cameroon could chase them out, I do not see why Nigeria with out artillery cannot do the same.

This is serious ohh

Let them go. Biafra used them to bring arms to Nigeria during the civil war. One of them is killed , they are crying. Her death pained anyway. GEJ should have put an end to Boko Haram. He failed.

Nigeria is not safe! A country where aid workers are killed is a failed country.

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MSF and UNICEF please follow suit

Another land mark achievement by ApC

Her death was uncalled for.. Sometimes one wonders exactly what these Islamic organizations want.. If u want everyone to become Muslims, then make Islam inviting. Let people become Muslims because they want to not out of compulsion. May her soul rest in peace.. Amen

Pls leave Northern Nigeria. Its' occupants have no value for human lives. They value cows' lives more than human lives. The president is their grand patron.

if they love their lives they should leave and return after the next election,the bloodsucker at the top now is lifeless to do anything.

Smartini:
What do these idiotic Boko Haram want?

How can a country fail so woefully in eradicating this level of insurgency for so long? Is Boko Haram really stronger than all Nigerian security and defence forces put together?

The worst thing is that these guys are not ready to negotiate and be paid off like the Niger Delta militants and Nnamdi Kanu (Yes, I believe he was paid off. A true Biafran revolutionary wouldn't shut up unless he's dead. Look at the fight Nelson Mandela put up even during years in prison and hard labout just for South African Independence).

To answer your question. Yes they are stronger. Sad but true

Please reconsider because of job losses

kushercain:
The annoying thing is the president doesn't even have respect for the deceased girl. Not even a statement from him. They should please go. This government is too foolish to know its priorities and set them right. Rubbish

He made a statement few days ago on NTA network news

It's a shame we as a people have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed by religion.

I want to ask, what's the sultan of sokoto's response to the killing of this lass?