Now CNN is broadcasting a video purportedly showing more than a dozen of the girls, still alive as of December.
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The world leaders condemned its mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Chibok two years ago on April 14 2014.
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s information minister, has declined to comment directly on talks with Boko Haram, which has previously said it would release the girls only in exchange for captured fighters in Nigerian prisons.
The Nigerian government and the worldwide community are to blame for the failure to rescue the over 200 school girls kidnapped from Chibok by the Islamist group, Boko Haram.
They are asked their names and where they were taken from. The video showed 15 girls, who have been identified by parents and schoolmates, wearing the Islamic hijab with one of them asking the government to keep unspecified promises.
The girls were taken from the Chibok secondary school during the raid and driven away in pickup trucks believed to have been taken into a forest in northeast Nigeria, according to The New York Times.
AFP has also seen photographs of five girls that were sent to the government in mid-January this year as part of the same bid for negotiations.
She further stated that the pregnancy was debated on by family members whether to be kept or terminated.
The President thanked all Nigerians, religious and civil organizations, and the global community for their continued sympathy, support and prayers for the return of the Chibok girls. The United Nations Children’s Fund thinks 2.3 million people have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, with 1.3 million of them children. “They say they don’t want us to have western education and our children don’t”. Parents have identified their daughters in a new video, lifting hopes for loved ones that the girls are still alive.
Some 20,000 children in the town and its surroundings have no school to attend, he said Thursday as parents gathered at the school to pray for the safe return of their daughters. “The calculated use of children who may have been coerced into carrying bombs, has created an atmosphere of fear and suspicion that has devastating consequences” for them, it said.
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Towards the end of the video, one of the girls speaks directly to the camera. Cardinal Onaiyekan said given the signs that numerous Boko Haram militants are now “tired” and losing their impetus and much of the territory they once controlled, they should be encouraged to hand in their arms and seek reconciliation.
