Leah Sharibu, one of the captives who were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, on February 19, 2018 has reportedly conceived a second child in Boko Haram detention.

It would be stated that Leah, still held in the B/Haram den was threatened and forced to accept Islam before being given to a top Boko Haram commander after she disagreed to renounce her Christian faith.

Chair-person of the US-Nigeria Law Group, Emmanuel Ogebe, disclosed in a statement that “In spite of an offer by an American pastor last month to lay down himself in exchange for Leah’s freedom, there has been no substantial response from her custodian.

“Despite that, intelligence noticed, on the status of Leah shows that she has gave birth to a second child in captivity. While we have not confirmed this by multiple sources, a usually credible source shows that she delivered a second child late last year. This means both children were born in 2020 as the terrorists announced her childbirth earlier in 2020. We are still investigating this.”

To observe the March 21 third anniversary of the freedom of the Dapchi girls returned by their captors and “abandonment of Leah Sharibu”, the US group in its commemorative statement, said “until she is released, Leah remains a poster child and symbol of a failed state that can’t protect its children.

The group also wailed the “full-scale onslaught on education in Nigeria by Islamist extremists: Boko Haram wars against education; bandits mass kidnap of children in school; and religious violence against Christian mission school owners in Ilorin over hijab controversy.”