The video posted on Twitter shows one of the alleged victims pleading for authorities to release detained militants so the girls can be freed. One man confirmed to CNN that his daughter was seen speaking in the video.
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Dozens of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok escaped on their own within two days of the abduction.
In the video a masked Boko Haram militant, holding a rifle, speaks in the Hausa language in front of a group of around 50 girls wearing headscarves. We hope you got the message and in this video, you will see how the jet bomb and killed your girls.
It has been mixed emotions for the girl’s parents.
Militants claim that some of the girls have been killed in airstrikes, and that around 40 have been married off. She also said that 40 have been “married” to fighters.
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Boko Haram “technically defeated”, and said success in the campaign would be measured on the return of the Chibok girls and other abductees.
They appear to be some of the Chibok girls, the group of 276 schoolgirls who were abducted from their school in Chibok, Nigeria, more than two years ago.
“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 also said he recognized some of the other girls in the video.
Wakil, a lawyer, was in contact with the Nigerian government during the 2013 amnesty negotiations with Boko Haram fighters, Premium Times Nigeria reported.
Dozens of the girls managed to flee to safety in the initial melee, but more than 200 are still missing. “Everybody should be disturbed by the conditions of the girls”, Aisha Yesufu said. This was when Muhammad Yusuf, the Boko Haram sect initial leader and his followers, were killed.
The abduction of the Chibok Girls sparked an worldwide social media campaign, #BringBackOurGirls.
Boko Haram, which was allied to ISIL but which has apparently recently split from the militant group, has kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children during their seven-year Islamic uprising.
Last week, Boko Haram’s leader Shekau appeared in a video vowing to fight on, amid a leadership scuffle between him and new Islamic State-backed rival Abu Musab al-Barnawi. The group is known for the abduction of the girls, yet have also been responsible for targeting mosques and markets with suicide bombers who are often young girls and boys.
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Boko Haram has been blamed for some 20,000 deaths and for displacing more than 2.6 million people since it launched a brutal insurgency in Nigeria in 2009.
