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.
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Bukky Shonibare, the founder of Girl Child Africa, says several parents were able to spot their daughters in the video released Sunday on Twitter.
The video demanded the release of Boko Haram fighters held by the government in exchange for the kidnapped schoolgirls.
On the night of 14-15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
The militant also carries out a staged interview with one of the captives, who calls herself Maida Yakubu, in which she asks parents to appeal to the government.
The latest video from Boko Haram group show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.
The mass kidnapping caused condemnation around the world and sparked the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign which received support from leading public figures including Michelle Obama and human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. She also said that 40 have been “married” to Islamic extremist fighters. Due to these links, Usman says the trio must “come forward” and provide intelligence on the abducted girls.
Information Minister Lai Mohammed said in a statement the government “was on top of the situation” to free the girls.
Recent “proof of life” videos such as this one have reinvigorated groups pressuring the Nigerian government to engineer the girls’ release.
The Boko Haram terrorist group on Sunday alleged that the bombardment of their locations by the Nigerian Air Force component of the Operation Lafiya Dole has resulted in the death of some Chibok schoolgirls.
The Islamist militant group alleges they were among the 278 abducted from their school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014.
“We don’t want to do anything with these girls”.
Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s command and aided by Nigeria’s neighbors, the army has recaptured most territory once lost to Boko Haram, but the group still regularly stages suicide bombings.
The new video is thought to feature Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the recently appointed successor to Abubakar Shekau, who has not been seen since early 2015.
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Salkida responded Monday that “my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace.is an open book”.
