It has been revealed that Leah Sharibu, one of the 110 school girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2018, has given birth to three children from three forced marriages in captivity.
Gideon Para Mallam, the CEO of the Gideon and Funmi Para-Mallam Peace Foundation, recently made the revelation about Leah, eight years after her abduction.
Para Mallam, in an interview with Channels Television, disclosed that after Leah was kidnapped, she was sold to an older man who forced her to become his wife. He said Leah later had a baby for that man.
He further said that, after about one or two years, Leah asked to be divorced and the man eventually divorced her.
He stated that another man, who was a strong Boko Haram commander, later married Leah and she had her second child with that man.
Para Mallam added that the man was killed on December 31, 2022, during violent clashes between the Shekau faction of Boko Haram and the ISWAP faction.
He said after that, another man also took Leah as his wife and she gave birth to another child for him.
Gideon Para Mallam said Leah Sharibu has been married to three husbands in captivity, and called on President Bola Tinubu to do all he can to rescue her from captivity.
In Mallam’s words: “Another guy who was a strong Boko Haram Fighter, a commander, married Leah. So her second child came from that man.
“But that man was killed on December 31, 2022 when there were clashes between Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and ISWAP faction.
“After that again, another man picked Leah and then she gave birth to another child. So probably three husbands from what I have described now.”
Leah Sharibu was famous for putting up a resistance to renounce her Christian faith when she was abducted along with the other girls on 9 February 19, 2018 from Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.
Leah, who was 14 years old when the abduction occurred, was full of optimism about life. But her dreams ended in the evening of that fateful day when the Boko Haram militants attacked her school.
A month later, to the relief of many grieving parents, most of the students were released from captivity through backchannel efforts, with the exception of Leah.
As the girls were loaded up in trucks to return home, Leah stayed behind. Her captors knew she was a Christian, and told her to renounce that identity. She refused. “I am a Christian,” she said. And so she has remained in captivity.
Leah will turn 22, as her parents, Nathan and Rebecca Sharibu, continue to nurse their heartaches, each passing day, even as they keep hope alive that their daughter will, one day, return to them in Dapchi.
•Source: Opera News
