In it, the militant group claim a number of the girls have been killed by Nigerian government air strikes.
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“They should know that their children are still in our hands”, he said in the video posted on YouTube that appeared to show some women injured after an air strike.
The armed group, which has attacked both Muslims and Christians, seized 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014.
But the missing Chibok schoolgirls were not among them, despite several unconfirmed sightings.
Salkida said he had been to Nigeria three times on the invitation of the federal government to help in the recovery of the Chibok schoolgirls.
It is understood the girls featured in the video are with a breakaway faction led by group leader Abubakar Shekau.
In its reaction, the Federal Government has said that it is doing everything possible to secure the release of the Chibok Girls and put an end to the awful saga of their abduction. Her father, Kawo Yakubu, said he hadn’t seen his daughter on any video since her abduction and at least he had now heard her.
But the Defence Headquarters, in a statement released shortly after the video went viral on the Internet, denied killing the girls and said it was examining its authenticity.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the acting director of army public relations, said in a press statement issued on Sunday: “There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them”. Many held babies, likely the product of rape after the girls were forcibly married to fighters.
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The footage from Boko Haram, posted on Twitter Sunday by Nigerian journalist Ahmad Salkida, appears to show more than 40 girls, covered in hijabs and some holding infants.
The Bring Back our Girls campaign group said there were only three choices available – government’s negotiation to rescue the girls, government use military operations to rescue the girls or a combination of both.
Many analysts believe the girls have been divided among Boko Haram fighters and are scattered throughout the Sambisa Forest, where the Nigerian military has stepped up its offensive against the militants in a battle that recently has included airstrikes. “Every day we are in pains and suffering”.
In the hours that followed the 2014 mass kidnap, dozens of girls managed to escape.
“I will sleep well because since she was kidnapped, I have never seen her in other videos released”.
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This indicates that the old leader, who allegedly has tense relations with the Islamic State leadership, “has significant logistics capabilities if it has been able to keep so numerous world’s most sought-after girls hidden and captive for more than two years now”, as Zenn told the Times.
