Leah Sharibu, one of the schoolgirls from a secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe state kidnapped by Boko Haram since 19 February 2018, has given birth to a baby boy in captivity.
Reports say, the girl who was 16 years old at the time she was captured along her other schoolmates, was impregnated by a Boko Haram top commander.
Leah Sharibu, according to Sahara Reporters, said she gave birth ‘a few weeks ago’ while other news outlets alleged she gave birth in Niger Republic on Saturday 25 January.
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According to a reliable source, Leah was forced to convert to Islam before being given away to the Boko Haram commander.
It would be recalled that Leah Sharibu was one of the victims kidnapped in 2018 alongside 110 other schoolgirls from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.
Last week, one of the aid workers freed by Boko Haram, Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, had said Leah Sharibu was alive.
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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.
On his part, a journalist with access to terror group – Boko Haram – Ahmad Salkida, on Sunday confirmed that Leah Sharibu was now a mother.
Salkida in a post on Twitter on Sunday, said;
Why, I wonder, do we pretend that leaving Leah behind won’t result in pregnancy?. Since the terror group announced condemning her to slavery, is there any step or collective focus on preventing similar occurrences? She’s a mother, but I don’t know about the gender of the baby.
