Leah Sharibu is alive- released aid worker

One of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls, Leah Sharibu has been reportedly ascertained to be alive.

This was according to Miss Jennifer Ukambong, an abducted aid worker in Plateau State who regained freedom last Thursday after spending a month in captivity.

Ukambong words: "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.”

The aid worker who met with Mrs Alice Ngaddah, Miss Grace Taku and Leah Sharibu said they were doing fine in the forest.

She also noted that Leah had a house to herself.

“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,” said the midwife-nurse when probed further.

Ngaddah, a United Nations Children’s Fund medical worker, was abducted in 2018 by Boko Haram in Rann community in Borno State.

She was abducted along with other victims after the insurgents attacked the town on March 1, 2018, killing at least four soldiers, policemen and three humanitarian workers.