Lois Azurfa, a
victim of the Kaduna train attack, says she dreaded the possibility of becoming
another Leah Sharibu while she was held captive.
Leah Sharibu is a student of Government Girls Science and
Technical Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe, who was kidnapped by a faction of
Boko Haram in February 2018.
Sharibu was the only Christian who was not released among
the over 100 students abducted from the Yobe school. She was
said to have been held back for refusing to denounce Christianity.
In an interview with PUNCH on Wednesday, Azurfa, who spent 191 days in captivity, said she was worried she could end up like Sharibu.
“So my faith was just
in God and the thought of Leah Sharibu kept coming and any time I actually
thought of Leah Sharibu I got traumatized because I felt I would be the next
Leah. But at that point, I didn’t just want to believe that, so I kept my faith
high, that was it,” she was quoted as saying.
The 21-year-old Azurfa said she would leave the country if
she gets the chance, adding that she still feels unsafe and scared.
“No, I don’t feel secured because it’s something that can
really happen anywhere. If a whole train can be attacked, then I feel we
shouldn’t be too sure to be safe in this country because for me I even feel
unsafe, not even in my own country. So I don’t actually feel secured. Even
going out, I’m always scared,” she added.
“If I really have the
opportunity to travel out, I think it will be better for me because staying in
this country, I feel I’m not still safe for the fact they (Boko Haram) had
indicated interest to marry me.
“At some point, I was actually thinking they never wanted to
get me released. I feel that staying back in this country, Nigeria, they can
come back for me if they still want me. So, I don’t really feel safe, that’s
one reason why I don’t really go out.”
Recall that the 300-level student of Kaduna State University
said one of the terrorists’ commanders expressed his desire to marry her.
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