His and other parents’ similar reactions were prompted after Boko Haram released a video over the weekend claiming that while the group still had the schoolgirls, some of them had been killed from airstrikes meant for its militants.
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Asking for more effort to be put in the search for the girls, Maida’s mother says that the government needs to concede, and give the abductors whatever they want so as to ensure the freedom of the kidnapped girls.
The new video was attributed to the original Boko Haram name, not the new Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), suggesting it was released by Shekau’s faction, although it is not known when or where it was filmed.
“Some of the girls, about forty of them with God’s permission have been married, some of them have died as a result of bombing by the infidels”, he said.
Spokesperson for the Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said in a statement reaching Xinhua that the three persons were wanted for interrogation on their links with the militant sect.
Some 270 girls were abducted from the school.
In such dire circumstances, there is only meager comfort to be had – that the girls who appear in the video are still alive.
In the video, one young woman issues a collective address to the families of the kidnapped schoolgirls.
He says some have been killed by the air strikes and calls on the government to release fighters in exchange for the girls to be set free. The girl who speaks in the video says that 40 of the girls have been “married”.
A mother of one of the kidnapped Chibok girls has seen proof that her daughter is still alive on a video published on Saturday (August 13) via social media by her captors Boko Haram.
“Oh you, my people and our parents, you just have to please come to our rescue: We are suffering here, the aircraft have come to bombard us and killed many of us. Now I see her, and I know she’s ok”.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has on several occasions promised to rescue the girls, with the country’s information minister recently insisting the government was doing everything possible to secure the girls’ release.
The was no immediate comment from the Nigerian army. “Not even the return of Amina Ali, a Chibok girl, inspired the sort of response we demanded”.
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The girl adds: “We are really suffering – there is no food to eat, no good water to drink here”.
