Nigeria: Leah Sharibu - B/Haram Rejected Ransom - Govt Sources

17 February 2020

Abuja and Yola — The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency told Daily Trust yesterday.

Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls' Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, in 2018.

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