Pastor Recounts Seven Months Experience With Bandits
Udeme James
Aug 20, 2022
Since 2014, when over 200 school girls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, many have remained wary of the southern Borno town. But that didn't scare Moses Oyeleke, a pastor with the Living Faith Church who had served in Chibok.
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Born and raised in Borno, Oyeleke knows the southern Borno axis like the back of his hand. He speaks Hausa and Kanuri fluently, camouflaging his Osun roots to blend in with the locals.
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Perhaps, that was what saved him during his frequent and brief encounters with the Boko Haram insurgents whenever he explored the area on his motorcycle. But none of that mattered when the pastor's luck ran out and sent him to seven months of captivity with the terrorists.
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