The Boko Haram had earlier on Sunday released a new video of the Chibok Girls. The mother of one of the Chibok girl.
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In the video, the fighter says the Nigerian government has repeatedly lied to its citizens with promises to quickly free those kidnapped from Chibok Government Girls School, who now are all over 18 years old.
The video posted Sunday on Twitter shows a young woman, covered in a hijab with just her face showing, who was one of the students abducted from a remote school in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014. In it, the militant group claim a number of the girls have been killed by Nigerian government air strikes. One man confirmed to CNN that his daughter was seen speaking in the video. In the video, the man conducts a staged interview with one of the students, who says numerous girls have been badly injured in military air strikes.
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.
According to a translation by The Guardian, she says, “To our parents-please be patient.There is no kind of suffering we haven’t seen”.
‘Every day we are in pains and suffering, so are our babies.
“The speaker said military air strikes had killed numerous kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, and he asked the parents of these girls to press the government to release the groups’ fighters from prisons across Nigeria”, the correspondent said. He portrays the government as the villain and says his group is keen on a prisoner swap – the girls for Boko Haram fighters being held in Nigerian jails. “Not any government has rescued them, no army rescued them”, she said. “They must therefore come forward and tell us where the group is keeping the Chibok girls and other abducted persons to enable us [to] rescue them”, said Usman. Loosely translated, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden”, and schools are a favorite target.
Boko Haram has been blamed for some 20,000 deaths and displacing more than 2.6 million people since it launched a brutal insurgency in Nigeria in 2009.
On the planned match by the BringBakcOurGirls to Aso Rock presidential villa, the minister said the government appreciated the group’s commitment to the return of these girls but “there are few things we need to do behind the scene.
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We are nevertheless studying the video clips to examine if the victims died from other causes rather from the allegation of airstrike”. “But we are being extremely careful because the situation has been compounded by the split in the leadership of Boko Haram”. Hundreds of other girls and boys have also been kidnapped and murdered by the group.
