Leah Sharibu, the only student of
Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, still in Boko Haram
custody, reportedly made an unsuccessful attempt to escape.
The insurgents abducted 110
students on February 19 and released them a month later, with the exception of
Sharibu and five students who died in captivity.
They reportedly held Sharibu back
for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.
Some of Sharibu’s schoolmates
said while in custody, she had sneaked away with two other girls — but was
unfortunate to walk into the wrong arms.
“We thought she was just going
round the corner, but she sneaked out along with Maryam and Amira (the other
two classmates),” Aisha Ibiwa, one of the girls, told UK Guardian.
They were said to have walked for
three days in the course of their escape from the insurgents. A family they met
for help on how to return home to Dapchi rather facilitated their return to the
insurgents.
Hajara Adamu, another of Leah’s
friends, recalled: “The Fulani man (from the family) said to them, ‘so you are
the missing girls that we’ve heard about on the radio.’ He gave them a jerrycan
filled with cow’s milk and brought them back.”
“Leah and her group weren’t
flogged. They [Boko Haram] said it was because they had suffered a lot while
trying to escape.”
Adamu said she had also tried to
escape but suffered same fate as Sharibu.
She added that the insurgents
laughed at them for attempting to escape, mocking them that “we wanted to go
back to the land of unbelievers.”
While in custody, the girls
recalled that one of the Boko Haram leaders whom they knew as “the Khalifa”
came to see them every week.
During those visits, he was said
to have told them they would not stay for too long in custody.
“We don’t have any issue with you
– our issue is with the government,” he had told them, according to Adamu.
“They’ve taken our men. Don’t worry, you’ll all go home soon.”
“He’d take off his balaclava and
say: ‘You shouldn’t go back to Nigeria. It’s a country of sinners and
unbelievers. When you go back, convince your parents to come back here to the
Islamic caliphate with you.’”
N5,000 ‘WELCOME-HOME GIFT’ FROM
BUHARI
Upon their return, the girls met
with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, before
reuniting with their families in Yobe.
Adamu recalled that the president
gave them N5,000 each, among other items.
“They gave us drinks and food and
chicken,” she said, adding: “Afterwards they took us out and we took a picture
with the president. The president gave us gifts of two wrappers, a pair of
shoes, and N5,000 each.”
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This narrative is just a made up, full of holes. The question still remains, where is Sharibu?
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