She was one of the Dapchi schoolgirls seized by the insurgents since 2018 in Yobe State.
Her whereabouts and condition were billed for discussion at the session, organised by Leah Foundation and Para-Mallam Peace Foundation Advocate for Social Justice, yesterday, in Abuja.
Archbishops Daniel Okoh, Ignatius Kaigama and Archbishop Emeritus, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, were billed for the event
One of the freed girls had revealed that Leah was denied freedom because she refused to convert to Islam.
“They said she should turn to Muslim before she enter motor (sic) and then she said she would never do that,” her mother, Rebecca Sharibu, told CNN in 2018.
She and her husband, Nathan, have ever since kept petitioning the Federal Government for their daughter’s release.
The sect has become notorious for kidnapping young men and women during the nine-year insurgency in North East.
The terror group has abducted more than 1,000 children, famously kidnapping nearly 300 Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State.
Despite the fact that the many escaped or were later released, more than 100 girls are still in captivity.
According to Amnesty International, hundreds of children have been killed, raped, forced into marriages or enlisted by the terrorists.
