BOKO Haram has released a video appearing to show the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamist group in April 2014.
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Usman said the military would work with other security agencies to bring in the suspects “if they fail to turn up”.
Since it started staging major attacks seven years ago, Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 people and forced 2.2 million from their homes in Nigeria and neighboring countries.
The militant in the video says that 40 of the girls were married off and some of the rest of the girls were killed in airstrikes.
Shortly after the girls were kidnapped in early 2014, #BringBackOurGirls started trending on Twitter, fueled by first lady Michelle Obama’s decision to express support for the movement. “We want the government to release our fighters who have been in detention for ages; otherwise, we will never release these girls”. Representatives of the government have declared that they are in contact with authors of video, but have noticed that at first they have to be convinced whether they really are those who hold schoolgirls.
And he warns that if Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari sends troops on a rescue mission, the girls will be slaughtered.
One of the girls then addresses the camera, saying: “Oh you, my people and our parents, you just have to please come to our rescue: We are suffering here, the aircraft has come to bombard us and killed many of us”.
“In the coming days I will seek to get a flight to Abuja and avail myself to the army authorities”, he said.
Yakuba’s father told CNN, “I’m very, very happy I saw my daughter on the video and I’m very happy she’s alive”.
Wakil also said that she was available to speak to the military and said she received the news of her being a wanted person “with rude shock”, since she had previously assisted the military in their efforts to retrieve the girls, in an interview with Premium Times on Monday.
While 57 girls were able to escape nearly immediately after the mass kidnapping, more than 200 remained Boko Haram’s captives.
“This becomes necessary as a result of their link with the last two videos released by Boko Haram terrorists and other findings of our preliminary investigations”.
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.
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Esther Yakubu, left, mother of one of the kidnapped school girls, watches a video released by Boko Haram during a briefing in Abuja, Nigeria.
