By Obadiah Mailafia
THE whole world now knows about her. Leah Sharibu, the freckled teenage schoolgirl from Dapchi who refuses to renounce her faith — even on pain of death.
On the night of Monday 19 February this year, the agents of the dreaded Boko Haram Leviathan raided a girls’ boarding secondary school in the sleepy town of Dapchi; carting away 110 out of 906 on the school’s official roster.
This daredevilry was a repeat of their 2014 kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok Secondary School in Borno State. Following secret negotiations with the government, the Dapchi girls were released, with the exception of the four that died and Leah Sharibu. She was offered freedom by her abductors on condition that she renounced her faith. She has staunchly refused to budge.
This young woman has shown herself to be uncommonly brave. During the early days of their…
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