According to Sahara
Reporters and Daily Trust, the girl who was 16 years old at the time she was
captured along with 110 of her schoolmates, was impregnated by a Boko Haram top
commander.
Leah Sharibu, a Christian
schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram since 19 February 2018, has given birth to a
baby boy, multiple reports indicated.
Sahara Reporters did not
indicate when exactly she gave birth. It said she gave birth ‘a few weeks ago’.
Daily Trust, however, said
she gave birth in Niger Republic on Saturday 25 January.
According to the reports,
Leah was forced to convert to Islam before being given away to the Boko Haram
commander, who also was not mentioned, but who Daily Trust said operates from
Niger Republic.
The Daily Trust also
reported that the insurgents had wanted to release Leah a few months ago but
couldn’t because she was pregnant. It is not clear whether Leah will be allowed
to go by the terrorists having delivered a child for their commander.
The report will definitely
exacerbate the worsening relations between the Buhari administration and the
Christian leaders, who have mounted a local and international campaign for the
release of Leah.
Leah was kidnapped along
with dozens of other schoolgirls from the Government Girls’ Science and
Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi in Yobe State.
The kidnapping happened
shortly after the military removed a checkpoint close to the school.
Last week, one of the aid
workers freed by Boko Haram, Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, said Leah Sharibu was
alive.
Jennifer who was working
for Action for International Medical Alliance when she was captured in December
last year, said she met another abductee of the organization who claimed that
Leah was alive and hidden in an undisclosed location.
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