Nigerian militant group Boko Haram reportedly released a new video Sunday showing dozens of the kidnapped schoolgirls that went missing over two years ago.
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About 2 000 girls and boys have been abducted by Boko Haram since 2014, with many used as sex slaves, fighters and even suicide bombers, according to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organisation.
At the meeting, members of the group said the present administration had failed Nigerians by not fulfilling its promise of rescuing the Chibok girls.
“We are on top of the situation”, he said.
In the video, a masked man stands behind a group of the girls, and says some of them have been killed in air strikes.
One girl, who calls herself Maida Yakubu, confirms she was picked up at the Chibok government school for girls.
Salkida said on Monday that he had made three trips to Nigeria on the invitation of the government since May 2015 and had made “personal sacrifices” to try and ensure the release of the Chibok girls. “We don’t want to watch the fourth video” – she added.
“We are not happy living here”, Yakubu says.
Aid workers say there is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in newly freed but still unsafe areas where a half million people are starving and babies are dying daily.
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. “I saw her sitting down”, said Samuel Yaga, father of schoolgirl Serah Samuel.
A veiled girl could be seen holding a baby.
The video, more than 11 minutes long, is addressed to the “families of the Chibok girls”.
In the video, the fighter says the Nigerian government has repeatedly lied to its citizens with promises to quickly free those kidnapped from Chibok Government Girls School, who now are all over 18 years old. Though some of them fled during the kidnapping and one girl managed to escape the militant group earlier this year, but the rest of the girls-more than 200 of them-are still missing.
One of the kidnapped girls was found alive in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria in May. The anonymous Boko Haram member claims that 40 of the girls have been forced to marry and that others have been killed by the government airstrikes. The man claims some of the girls were killed by an airstrike by Nigerian military jets.
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He then issues a threat, saying the girls will never be rescued alive if the government uses force to rescue them. There are also concerns over the recent “split in the leadership of Boko Haram”.
