“They should know that their children are still in our hands”, he said in the video posted on YouTube that appeared to show some women injured after an air strike. The latest video posted on Twitter also shows one veiled girl, identified as one of the 276 students captured.
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She spoke in the Chibok dialect.
“All the girls that have been rescued have rescued themselves”.
He said the government had not relented on efforts to find and recover the girls. Some of the women escaped, though now, more than 200 remain missing.
Mr Salkida is said to have high-level contacts among the group’s leaders and is believed to have been involved in failed talks between Boko Haram and the government of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
The Bring Back Our Girls campaign group has also condemned what it describes as the government’s inaction towards rescuing the girls and are demanding for more action.
He however revealed that the Army was aware he was not in the country prior to being declared wanted, adding that his journey home would be hastened if the government could fund his trip.
“Military jets have killed some of the girls”, she said.
Wearing a faded black abaya and patterned headscarf, Esther’s 18-year-old daughter looks down as a militant armed with a gun instructs her to speak: “We are not happy living here”, Maida tells the camera. Some people has said the kidnapping is not true. In May, a lone Chibok girl escaped from the Sambisa Forest stronghold of Boko Haram, saying she was led to freedom by her disillusioned Boko Haram “husband”. “Let them get ready because every day we shall be marching to the (Presidential) villa”.
The mass abduction brought Boko Haram to the world’s attention and even got the participation of USA first lady Michelle Obama in the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign, promising her husband would do all in his power to help liberate them.
Boko Haram snatched over 270 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.
He said: ‘We are nevertheless studying the video clips to examine if the victims died from other causes rather (than) from the allegation of airstrike’.
“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”. “We want to be doubly sure that those we are in touch with are who they claim to be”.
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Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgency has left some 20,000 people dead and forced at least 2.6 million others to flee their homes.
