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<\/p>\nOyeleke and his assistant, Abraham Amuta, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, were seized along Chibok road, on March 13, 2019.<\/p>\n
They were on a church committee established to distribute relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).<\/p>\n
Oyeleke, on Monday, told reporters at the office of Usman Kadafur, Borno deputy governor that Boko Haram tried to convert him to Islam.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were on our way to Chibok when they caught us and took us to Yale; from there, they took a detour and finally took us to Sambisa\u201d, The Cable quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the two of us, myself and my brother, who were not released. They have promised us that when they finish discussions, they\u2019ll release them in December; himself and the elder sister of this girl I was released with.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very happy today that we have been rescued because where we are coming from, we have come from a place of darkness to light; that is why my heart is filled with joy because I have seen my family, friends, and associates.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stayed peacefully with them for up to seven months. Many times they have requested me to convert to Islam, their preachers had preached to me a lot of times but you know when you have wisdom, you relate with people in a way that would not lead to quarrel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they come to preach, I pay attention to everything they said and when they asked me questions about things that I know will cause problems if I respond, I always tell them I don\u2019t know so that I don\u2019t say things that would offend them\u201d, the cleric recounted.<\/p>\n
His release was reportedly facilitated by the Borno government and two non-governmental organisations \u2013 Kalthum Foundation for Peace, and Initiative for Peace Building.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moses Oyeleke, a pastor with the Living Faith Church Worldwide (aka Winners\u2019 Chapel) in Maiduguri, Borno state, has spoken on his ordeal with Boko Haram. Oyeleke and his assistant, Abraham Amuta, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, were seized along Chibok road, on March 13, 2019. They were on a church committee established to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5115,37,12415,2109],"class_list":["post-167152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-army","tag-boko-haram","tag-iswap","tag-sambisa-forest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}