Boko Haram Makes Christian Girl “Slave for Life”

Boko Haram has announced they will “spare” a 15-year-old Christian school girl, Leah Sharibu, from execution, and instead make her a “slave for life.”

Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from a school in Northern Nigeria. Leah Sharibu was the only Christian among the 110 girls who were kidnapped. All the girls were ultimately released when the government paid a ransom for them. Reports claim that the government did not ransom Leah Sharibu because she is not a Muslim. She was first scheduled to be martyred for her faith. Now, she is condemned to a lifetime of slavery instead. I cannot imagine the horrors this girl has endured and will endure in the future.

From CBN:

Kidnapped Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu will not be executed as threatened by a Nigeria terror group, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper, The Cable, reports.

According to The Cable, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) says instead, Sharibu will become its “slave for life.”

At the same time, the Boko Haram faction known as ISWAP announced it has executed another humanitarian worker, Hauwa Leman of th

e International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Leman’s death follows the execution of ICRC aid worker Saifura Ahmed who was executed by ISWAP last month after she was kidnapped along with three other humanitarian workers in Borno state on March 1. In September, a Cable reporter viewed a videotape released by ISWAP showing Ahmed on camera wearing a white hijab when she was shot from behind.

Sharibu is the only Christian among 110 girls abducted by Boko Haram from a school in Dapchi (northern Nigeria) February 15, 2018. In late March, Boko Haram freed all the abducted Dapchi girls except for Sharibu because she refused to renounce her Christian faith and convert to Islam.

Earlier this summer, the United Nations released a report alleging that the Nigerian government paid a ransom for the release of the schoolgirls, but not for Sharibu because she is not a Muslim.