Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl among 112 students kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe, has given birth in captivity.

While those kidnapped alongside Leah were subsequently released, except five who died in captivity, following negotiations with the insurgents by the federal government, Leah was not released by the insurgents who claimed they could not release her because she didn’t renounce her faith, Christianity.

But in a tweet on Sunday, Ahmad Salkida, journalist who has links to the Boko Haram hierarchy, said Sharibu is now a mother, but that he was yet to know the gender of the baby.

“Why, I wonder, do we pretend that leaving Leah behind won’t result in pregnancy? Since the terror group announced condemning her to slavery, is there any step or collective focus on preventing similar occurrences? She’s a mother, but I don’t know about the gender of the baby,” Salkida tweeted

LagosTimes also gathered from sources who are in the know that Sharibu was “impregnated by one of the commanders of the sect, and she was delivered of a baby four days ago”.