Leah Sharibu, a Christian-long-term ally of Boko Haram, turned up in the streets on Tuesday to rally their president’s incompetence in halting the threat of extreme Islamist terrorism.
Sharibu disappeared alongside about 110 other ladies from Dapchi, Yobe condition, Nigeria in February 2018, abducted by Boko Haram jihadists. She was 15 at the time. In the past ten years, Boko Haram, a Sunni jihadist criminal business affiliated with the Islamic State, has focused on carrying out large-scale kidnappings of young women and girls. Boko Haram jihadists tend to target Christian institutions, kidnapping ladies and forcing them into sexual slavery through “marriages” with terrorists.
One of the largest abductions in Nigeria over the past ten years, the Dapchi violence, which targeted the city’s Government Girls ‘ Scientific and Technical College, was almost completely resolved in less than a month. All the women but one were released by the Boko Haram jihadists in May 2018, according to one captive, Leah Sharibu, who other captives claimed was never freed because she refused to convert to Islam.
” My daughter is alive, but they would n’t release her because she is a Christian”, Nathan Sharibu, Leah’s father, told , USA Today in March 2018.  ,” They told her they would transfer her if she converted, but she said she will never become a Muslim. My daughter did n’t reject Christ, which makes me sad, but she’s also overjoyed.
Nigeria: Leah Sharibu turns 21 in Boko Haram prison
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This year, Christian organizations in Nigeria staged protests in the north of the country to condemn President Bola Tinubu’s government for failing to completely Sharibu and for failing to protect Christian communities that have been the target of jihadist violence since his victory in the March 2023 election. Former President Mohammadu Buhari, a Fulani Muslim, took the place of Tinubu, who was responsible for the country’s dramatic rise in jihadist violence, mainly by homicidal Fulani extremists attacking Christians of different cultural backgrounds. According to Buhari,” culture change” contributed to the jihadist massacres and widespread abductions of Christians.
The protesters convening on Sharibu’s holiday, which is said to have number in the hundreds in Kaduna state, demanded Sharibu’s release along with the release of the dozens of girls kept by Boko Haram terrorists as “wives” with much government assistance in their care. Local media reports that protesters were holding signs with slogans like” Free Leah Sharibu and other assaulted women now” and “Education is never a crime” among others.
Leah Sharibu, the face of this plan and many other campaigns for healthy schoolchildren, was born on January 21st, and we have all come out to honor her. We therefore want to wish her a happy birthday even in captivity” , , Rev. Yunusa Nmadu, the president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria, said in an address to those convened, according to the nearby Osun Defender.
” Nigeria is ebbing out. Nigeria is dying. In our nation, we are on the verge of giving in to insecurities, bandits, captors, and all kinds of wicked people. It is time to stop”, Nmadu warned.
” We voted you in for protection but what we get is uncertainty. So, we asked and we spoke this day to the President of the country, Bola Tinubu. Choose, up your game, and healthy life”, Nmadu urged.
Another speech at the occasion,  , Braimoh Martins of , Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria, estimated that Boko Haram and Fulani jihadists are already keeping holding 400 individuals prisoner.
Sharibu’s families issued a statement on Tuesday differently, marking the 21st day of their child through a spokeswoman.
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The statement from her parents read,” We continue to ask the Nigerian government to satisfy do the needful and confirm that Leah Sharibu is freed from her captivity. Her crime is that she proudly and boldly refused to deny her faith in Jesus Christ.”
We continue to urge everyone to stay praying for Leah Sharibu to hold on to Faith and know that God did free her from captivity, according to the declaration. Wherever you are, let us hope you a Happy Birthday and request that the Lord God Almighty, who you honored at quite a young age, will remain with you. Please be aware that your kids ‘ children are in need of your return to the world.
The kids urged Tinubu to stop allowing her to go missing and that Buhari had failed to open her.
Since the year Sharibu was kidnapped, there has been little more reliable details about her whereabouts. Six months after her disappearance, Boko Haram jihadists released an audio recording that they claimed was Sharibu’s appeal. Her relatives said the words did good like their child, but authorities not confirmed if the tape was, in truth, of Sharibu.
” I’m asking the government and those of good will to step in to help me get out of this condition.” “, the information, in the Hausa speech, read. ” I also admit to the members of the public to support my family, my father, my younger sibling and friends. Politely help me out of my plight. I am begging you to handle me with kindness, I am calling on the state, especially, the President to pity me and get me out of this critical condition. Congratulate you”.
The most recent information about Sharibu are from September, when anonymous alleged “local security options” told Nigeria ‘s , Daily Trust newspaper that Sharibu has become a mother and had two Boko Haram “husbands” since 2018.
According to an unidentified cause, Sharibu was forced to marry a man he identified as” Abdulrahman,” and later adopted Islam, having two boys living with him. More recent reports claimed that she is now married to a Boko Haram” commander” , , Ali Abdallah, and has since borne a daughter.
According to the report, Sharibu was being compelled to help injured terrorists by leading a Boko Haram “medical team” and receiving rudimentary training in medical.
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