Leah Sharibu, the schoolgirl held in captivity by members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in 2018, now leads a medical team of the sect in Lake Chad.
Sharibu was among the 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government area of Yobe state whisked away from their hostels by ISWAP on February 19, 2018.
Five of the girls died at the hands of their captors. But after weeks of negotiations between the Nigerian government and the abductors, 104 of the schoolgirls were released except Sharibu.
The terrorists reportedly said they kept her back because she refused to denounce her Christian faith and vowed to keep the Dapchi schoolgirl as “a slave for life”.
A local security source who spoke to Daily Trust revealed that Sharibu was trained on how to tend to injured Boko Haram fighters.
“She was trained as a medical personnel and now leads the ISWAP medical team in the northern part of the Lake Chad area,” the source revealed.
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