Well, there is a story going around that Leah Sharibu is having a song for Boko haram leader. Leah Sharibu is a Christian lady who was abducted by Boko haram terrorist in Lagos. She was captured and kept for a long time and many people are saying that she was sexually abused and is going to give birth to a child for a Boko Haram commander.
The family of abducted Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has spoken out after reports published over the weekend suggested that their daughter has given birth to the son of a Boko Haram commander and that she was forced to accept Islam.
A source close to the Borno-based Islamic extremist group told Sahara Reporters that Sharibu has given birth to a baby boy after she was forced to accept Islam and forcefully married to an unnamed Boko Haram commander.
Dr. Gloria Puldu, a spokesperson for the family and a lecturer at the University of Jos, considered the reports to be nothing more than rumors.
“I have seen reports that Leah had a baby boy. That is just a rumor as far as we are concerned,” Puldu told The Punch. “What we even desire is to see a proof-of-life so that we see Leah by ourselves. If they are able to have Leah safe, we will understand.”
Puldu spoke with one woman who escaped from Boko Haram captivity last week.
“I was able to speak with her one-on-one and she told us that she did not see Leah in captivity, but she was with Alison Gada, who informed her that Leah was alive, healthy and not dead," Puldu said.
Sharibu’s father, Nathan, told the Hausa service of Voice of America that he has not been contacted by authorities with an update on his daughter and was not sure of the credibility of the recent reports.
Nigerian investigative journalist Ahmed Salkida, who regularly breaks news related to Boko Haram, offered his confirmation that Sharibu gave birth to a child.
“Why, I wonder, do we pretend that leaving Leah behind won't result in pregnancy?” Salkida wrote in a tweet. “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.”
Dede Laugeson, the executive director of the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Save the Persecuted Christians, told The Christian Post in a statement that Sharibu’s life is in a “constant horrific state of terror, violence, mental anguish, and rape.”
Save the Persecuted Christians collaborated with the International Committee on Nigeria and the Leah Foundation to bring Sharibu’s mother, Rebecca, to Washington, D.C., last June to advocate for her daughter’s release.
“The story of Leah, and the missing Chibok girls, and the Christian girls of Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq who are taken, tortured, and killed, cannot be forgotten,” Laugeson emphasized. “Christians who defend life must defend it even for the least of these mothers — no matter how they came to be mothers.”
Nigeria ranks as the 12th worst country in the world for Christian persecution on Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List. Although there were fewer Christians killed in Nigeria in 2020, Open Doors USA notes that it is because of a change of tactic by Boko Haram to focus on more kidnappings.
“They have gone from assassination and these kinds of things to roadside assaults on Christians and kidnappings,” Open Doors USA CEO David Curry said earlier this month.
Last week, Boko Haram executed Rev. Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s chapter in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Andimi was taken captive by the group on Jan. 3.
The Christian Association of Nigeria called for three days of prayer and fasting following the news of Andimi’s killing.
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The family of abducted Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has spoken out after reports published over the weekend suggested that their daughter has given birth to the son of a Boko Haram commander and that she was forced to accept Islam.
A source close to the Borno-based Islamic extremist group told Sahara Reporters that Sharibu has given birth to a baby boy after she was forced to accept Islam and forcefully married to an unnamed Boko Haram commander.
Dr. Gloria Puldu, a spokesperson for the family and a lecturer at the University of Jos, considered the reports to be nothing more than rumors.
“I have seen reports that Leah had a baby boy. That is just a rumor as far as we are concerned,” Puldu told The Punch. “What we even desire is to see a proof-of-life so that we see Leah by ourselves. If they are able to have Leah safe, we will understand.”
Puldu spoke with one woman who escaped from Boko Haram captivity last week.
“I was able to speak with her one-on-one and she told us that she did not see Leah in captivity, but she was with Alison Gada, who informed her that Leah was alive, healthy and not dead," Puldu said.
Sharibu’s father, Nathan, told the Hausa service of Voice of America that he has not been contacted by authorities with an update on his daughter and was not sure of the credibility of the recent reports.
Nigerian investigative journalist Ahmed Salkida, who regularly breaks news related to Boko Haram, offered his confirmation that Sharibu gave birth to a child.
“Why, I wonder, do we pretend that leaving Leah behind won't result in pregnancy?” Salkida wrote in a tweet. “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.”
Dede Laugeson, the executive director of the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Save the Persecuted Christians, told The Christian Post in a statement that Sharibu’s life is in a “constant horrific state of terror, violence, mental anguish, and rape.”
Save the Persecuted Christians collaborated with the International Committee on Nigeria and the Leah Foundation to bring Sharibu’s mother, Rebecca, to Washington, D.C., last June to advocate for her daughter’s release.
“The story of Leah, and the missing Chibok girls, and the Christian girls of Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq who are taken, tortured, and killed, cannot be forgotten,” Laugeson emphasized. “Christians who defend life must defend it even for the least of these mothers — no matter how they came to be mothers.”
Nigeria ranks as the 12th worst country in the world for Christian persecution on Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List. Although there were fewer Christians killed in Nigeria in 2020, Open Doors USA notes that it is because of a change of tactic by Boko Haram to focus on more kidnappings.
“They have gone from assassination and these kinds of things to roadside assaults on Christians and kidnappings,” Open Doors USA CEO David Curry said earlier this month.
Last week, Boko Haram executed Rev. Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s chapter in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Andimi was taken captive by the group on Jan. 3.
The Christian Association of Nigeria called for three days of prayer and fasting following the news of Andimi’s killing.
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