Leah Sharibu has been married to Boko Haram commander
A Boko Haram kidnapped victim, Adarju Juliet, has revealed that the adopted Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu has been married off by Boko Haram Commander.
In an interview, the 28-year-old trader who spent two weeks in captivity noted she was asked to renounce her faith or be treated like Leah Sharibu.
Juliet who was abducted by suspected Boko Haram members on her way to Maiduguri, Borno State said Boko Haram.
Leah Sharibu, a Christian school girl, who was among 110 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state on 19 February 2018.
She was the only one that was denied her freedom by her captors for refusing to denounce her belief, while her other classmates were released after a month in captivity.
According to a tweet on January 26 by Ahmad Salkida, a journalist with access to the insurgents, said Sharibu is now a mother, but that he has no knowledge of the baby gender.
He queried why people are surprised about Sharibu getting pregnant to a Boko Haram member stressing that she was already condemned to slavery and so has no authority over body.
Adarju had in the interview disclose that she was abducted in January 2020 on her way to Maiduguri along Damaturu road.
She explained further that in January, 2020, her mother fell ill and her elder sister told her to bring her to Maiduguri for treatment.
She said that it was on their way to Maiduguri, along Damaturu road, they heard gunshots, she added that the people who fired the shots came out with their faces covered and stopped them
She noted that the three of them in the vehicle were women and the armed men asked their names and religion which those them who identified themselves as Christians were separated and she was the only lady among them.
While explaining further, she stated that they collected their belongings and told their driver to leave with her mother because they would take her away.
According to her the insurgents used to come to their location to ask the kidnappers the number of victims they had in their custody and also collected money from the kidnappers any time they came, and if the victim is a woman, they took her away.
She said that they told her to choose between denying her faith so as to regain freedom or they would call a Boko Haram member to take her to Sambisa forest and she wept and told them that she would not deny her faith.
She further disclosed that 1.5 million was paid by her guardian in securing her release.
“They told me to give them the phone number of any of my guardians so that they would inform my family that I had been kidnapped. But I told them that my dad is late and I didn’t have anyone; it is my pastor that has been a father to me.”
“Truly, my dad died when I was three years old. They collected my pastor’s number and told him that his daughter had been kidnapped. They told him that they had not concluded on whether they would kill me, give me away to the Boko Haram insurgents or collect a ransom. After calling the family of a victim, they remove the SIM card and discard it.”
“When they saw that I was crying because I was worried about my mother’s whereabouts, they decided not to give me away to the Boko Haram insurgents. But they argued among themselves on this before reaching a conclusion to collect a ransom for my release.”
“The pastor tried his best, with the help of other Christians, to raise N1.5m. They told him to bring the N1.5m because they were under pressure from Boko Haram to either release me or kill me. They told the pastor how to deliver the money to them. They later dumped me somewhere and told me to find my way from there.”
