Boko Haram faction Iswap says it murdered air worker because she converted to Christianity

BOKO Haram faction the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) has revealed that it recently executed International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) aid worker Hauwa Leman because she converted from Islam to Christianity.

Yesterday, Iswap carried out its threat to kill Ms Leman who it abducted in March along with Saifura Khorsa, another ICRC aid worker who it executed last month. In a gruesome case of bestiality, the Boko Haram faction released a video yesterday in which Ms Leman was forced to kneel down with her hands tied inside a white hijab with a crest symbol and then shot at close range.

In the video, the terrorists also vowed to keep Leah Sharibu, the abducted Dapchi schoolgirl, as a slave for life. Leah was the only Christian among 110 girls abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi on February 15 and in late March, the others were freed but she remained in detention because she refused to renounce her Christian faith and convert to Islam.

An Iswap spokesman said: “We have kept our word exactly as we said by killing another humanitarian worker, Hauwa Leman, who is working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that were abducted during a raid on a military facility in Rann, Kala Balge in March 2018. Saifura and Hauwa were killed because they are considered as Murtads (apostates) by the group because they were once Muslims that have abandoned their Islam, the moment they chose to work with the Red Cross.

"For us, there is no difference between Red Cross and Unicef. If we see them, we will kill the apostates among them, men or women and chose to kill or keep the infidels as slaves, men or women.”

Earlier this summer, the United Nations released a report alleging that the Nigerian government paid a ransom for the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls but not for Sharibu because she is not a Muslim. Last month, Iswap warned it would kill the 15-year-old Sharibu if its ransom demands were not met.