{"id":572,"date":"2020-01-29T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=572"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:35:28","slug":"i-want-my-daughter-back-alive-with-or-without-baby-father-of-abducted-school-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"I want my daughter back alive with or without baby \u2013 Father of abducted school girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Sharibu, father of abducted Dapchi school girl, Leah, has said he wants his daughter back alive with or without a baby.<\/h2>\n

Sharibu spoke in reaction to news making the round that Leah had been converted to Islam and married off to a Boko Haram Commander who impregnated her leading to the birth of a child few weeks ago.<\/h2>\n

A journalist with access\u00a0to Boko Haram, Ahmad Sakilda, had revealed that Leah had become a mother.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWhy, I wonder, do we pretend that leaving Leah behind won\u2019t result in pregnancy?<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the terror group announced condemning her to slavery, is there any step or collective focus on preventing similar occurrences? She\u2019s a mother, but I don\u2019t know about the gender of the baby,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Leah\u00a0was abducted alongside 109 other girls from Government\u00a0Girls\u2019 Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Busari Local Government Area of Yobe State\u00a0on February 19, 2018.<\/p>\n

While most of the girls were released, Leah was denied freedom after refusing to renounce her Christian faith for Islam.<\/p>\n

She has been in the custody of the terror group despite repeated pledges by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian government to ensure her freedom.<\/p>\n

Sharibu told Channels Television that his \u201cprimary concern is to see his daughter return alive and will, therefore, not give any credence to any rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also reacting, the\u00a0Chairman of the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Yakubu Pam, has debunked claims that Leah had denied her faith.<\/p>\n

Pam, in a statement, said Leah remained a good and worthy ambassador of Jesus Christ that is being persecuted on account of her faith by the Boko Haram insurgents.<\/h2>\n

He said if anything has happened to her in the last two years it must have been by brute force by her captors.<\/h2>\n

He said the situation Leah found herself is not what anyone could wish to be in.<\/h2>\n

The clergyman urged the federal government to intensify efforts to rescue Leah and reunite her with her family with or without a baby.<\/h2>\n

Describing the unconfirmed news that Leah had been delivered of a baby boy as shocking, Pam asked the security agents to investigate it with a view to ascertaining what actually happened.<\/h2>\n

He particularly urged President Muhammadu Buhari to authenticate the source of the story and also do all within his power to negotiate the release of the school girl.<\/h2>\n

Pam also admonished northern parents and religious leaders to being up their children and followers in the fear of the Lord so as to avoid making them a nuisance to the society.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Sharibu, father of abducted Dapchi school girl, Leah, has said he wants his daughter back alive with or without a baby. Sharibu spoke in reaction to news making the round that Leah had been converted to Islam and married off to a Boko Haram Commander who impregnated her leading to the birth of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}