A few hours after the Boko Haram sect released a new video on the missing Chibok Girls, the Nigerian Army has declared three persons wanted for their alleged link with the terrorists.
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Some girls wearing headscarves, in the video, were seen behind a Boko Haram militant who demanded the release of fighters in return for freeing the girls.
“There is a number of the girls, about 40 of them, that have been married by the decision of Allah”, said the man in the 11-minute video, which shows girls with veils sitting on the ground and standing in the background.
The group is said to be holding more than 200 of the 276 girls it seized from a school in April 2014.
Boko Haram controlled a vast swath of territory in the northeast of the country until previous year, when a coalition of armies from Nigeria and neighbouring countries drove the Islamist terrorist group out of all the major towns that it controlled.
Responding to the latest video of the Chibok schoolgirls, the Acting Director, Defence Information, Rabe Abubakar, said that the military is examining the clip to verify its authenticity.
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The army says it declared Ahmed Salkida and two other persons, Ahmed U Bolori and Aisha Wakil, wanted due to their alleged link with Boko Haram.
“When I heard her voice, I realised she is my daughter”, her father Kanu Yakubu told reporters in Abuja.
A top Nigerian Air Force officer, told PRNigeria on the condition of anonymity that the airstrikes are controlled by professionally trained officers who coordinate the strike with friendly ground troops, after a lot of surveillance to limit casualty on the ground.
“Presently, some of the girls are crippled, some are terribly sick and some of them, as I had said, died during bombardment by the Nigerian military”, the spokesman said.
“We’re certain that these are the Chibok girls”, Abdullahi told AFP.
“If our members in detention are not freed, let the government and parents of the Chibok girls know that they will never find these girls again”, he said. Many held babies, likely the product of rape after the girls were forcibly married to fighters.
“What we are doing at the moment is to get some relatives and the family to confirm fully that some of those girls were abducted”, Usman said.
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It was attributed to the old Boko Haram name, not the new Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), suggesting it was released by Shekau’s faction. There has also been a resurgence of polio in areas that had been under Boko Haram’s control, as a result of the extremists’ opposition to vaccinations. “It does have a sense of nearly desperation from Boko Haram”.
