An aid worker from Plateau who was released last Thursday after one month in Boko Haram captivity, Jennifer Ukambong, has disclosed that Leah Sharibu is alive and somewhere close to Lake Chad.
Twenty two-year-old Ukambong, a nurse, who returned to Jos at the weekend amidst celebration by parents, well-wishers and fellow nurses who gathered at her residence in Bukuru, however said the terrorists were somehow kind to her and her fellow abductees.
Ukambong said, “They ( Boko Haram) told us it was against the Qur’an to forcefully touch a woman not legally married to you.
“They however tried to prepare our minds to expect such should they decide to keep us as slaves.
“According to them, the Qur’an gives them the right to such privileges when they take a hostage as slave.”
She revealed that Mrs. Alice Ngaddah, Miss Grace Taku and Leah Sharibu were all “doing fine in the forest.”
Ngaddah, a United Nations Children’s Fund medical worker, was abducted in 2018 by Boko Haram in Rann community in Borno State along with other victims after the insurgents attacked the town on March 1, 2018, killing at least four soldiers, policemen and three humanitarian workers.
Leah was among the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from Yobe State by Boko Haram terrorists on February 19, 2018.
The only Christian among the school girls, Leah is said to have remained in the hands of the terrorists because she refused to convert to Islam.
Grace Taku, also an aid worker was abducted on July 18, 2019.
Speaking further about the other captives Ukambong said, “Alice in fact told us that she (Leah Sharibu) is fatter than she was when she was abducted. We went to her house (in the forest) twice .
“Yes she (Sharibu) has a house there…I don’t know the location but they say it is close to Lake Chad.
“She (Alice) told us to pray for her and the other two, that she has left everything to God.”
Meanwhile, she disclosed that Alice’s name had been given the Muslim name, Halima, by the terrorists.
