As Nigerian news agency reports with reference to world mass media, on this video the armed man in mask has declared that the part of kidnapped Chibok girls has died as a result of airstrikes. Numerous girls are thought to have been sexually abused and around 40 are said to have been forced into “marrying” their captors, according to the BBC.
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On Sunday, Ahmed Saldika, a Nigerian journalist with Boko Haram contacts posted the video on Twitter.
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.
In April 2014, Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 teenage girls from their boarding school in Chibok.
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. At the end of the video unidentified bodies could be seen on the ground. She pleaded with the Nigerian government to release Boko Haram prisoners so that they too can be freed. “We are nevertheless studying the video clips to examine if the victims died from other causes rather from the allegation of airstrike”, said Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar via PR Nigeria.
Esther Yakubu, mother of one of the kidnapped schoolgirls, cries after seeing her daughter Dorcas in a video released by Boko Haram.
Some people have said they are no more alive.
“When I heard her voice, I realised she is my daughter”, Kanu Yakubu said.
Nigerian Information Minister Alhaji Mohammed said the government is doing all it can to try to release the girls, but it needs to be careful about who it communicates with now that the group has split in two.
But the video shows only 50 girls, while 218 girls remain missing.
Some of the girls were killed in Nigerian airstrikes, the group claims in the video, offering to release the captive girls in exchange for Boko Haram fighters the Nigerian government has detained. One girl escaped this year, saying she had been led to freedom by her BokoHaram “husband”.
“The military instead, should try to figure how to work with the journalist and the other lady, who they were declaring wanted”.
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More than 20,000 people have been killed in the 7-year-old Islamic uprising that has spread from Nigeria to neighboring countries and driven 2.2 million people from their homes.
