Detain Christian Girl, Leah Sharibu Tried To Escape But Fell On Wrong Hand- Classmate

We reported few weeks ago how the only Christian girl of Government Secondary School in Dapchi Leah Sharibu was detained by Boko Haram after she refused to renounce her faith while her other colleagues were released.

According to Leah's colleagues, she and two of her classmates tried to escape while in captivity but fell on a wrong hand.

 “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 revealed to UK Guardian .

They 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.’”

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