‘I often cry when I remember my friend Leah’

BY INNIH KING

Family and friends of adopted Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, are not relenting in their struggle to have the 16-year-old freed by her terrorist Boko Haram captors.

Following recent unverified information suggesting that Leah, held on account of her Christian faith, may have been killed, one of her friends, Miss Aisha Kachalla, who, alongside with Leah, was one of the 110 Dapchi school girls abducted by the terrorists in February 2018, has expressed worry about Leah’s whereabouts.

“I often cry when I remember my friend Leah. I don’t know where she is.

“I don’t believe she is dead because there is no proof of her death. Her corpse has not appeared in any television station or newspaper,” Miss Kachalla told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview.

While the terrorists released the other 109 girls, including Aisha, they held on to Leah on account of her faith and for refusing to renounce Christianity and be converted to Islam.

Also, Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, the mother of Leah Sharibu has again pleaded with the Federal Government to intensify efforts towards her daughter’s release from Boko Haram captivity.

Madam Rebecca who spoke with NAN in an interview on Wednesday in Dapchi, said: “I still plead with Federal Government, organisations and individuals to intensify efforts for the release of my daughter, Leah, who has been in the hands of insurgents for one year and five months.

Malam Kachalla Bukar, the Secretary of Dapchi Abducted School Girls Parents Association, said the association would not relent in its effort to ensure that Leah is released.