The newest video is the third of its kind released by Boko Haram since the girls were kidnapped.
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Boko Haram issued a new video on Sunday, showing dozens of young girls wearing Islamic robes and claiming that they were the same girls kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, in April 2014.
The Nigerian government said it was in touch with those claiming to be behind the undated video, which shows a group of approximately 50 girls in Islamic dress sitting and standing around a masked man armed with an assault rifle. Nigeria’s defense ministry is disputing that, saying it is rare for innocent civilians to be killed in the bombings. Defence spokesman Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar said the military was only engaged in precision air strikes: “The equipment has the capacity of registering targets and hitting only those targets”.
“But they chose to do things their own ways only and never gave considerations to any of my suggestions”, she said in a statement. Addressing the camera, he demands the release of the group’s fighters in exchange for the girls’ freedom. You helplessly watch your daughter but there is nothing you can do.
“All the girls that have been rescued have rescued themselves”.
Throughout a year ago the military announced the rescue of hundreds of people, majority women and children, who have been kidnapped by the Islamists. “We are also being guided by the need to ensure the safety of the girls”. Buhari won March 2015 elections in part because of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s failure to rescue the girls. Information Minister Lai Mohammed said the division in Boko Haram’s ranks is complicating the effort to free the girls. She pleaded with the Nigerian government to release Boko Haram prisoners so that they too can be freed.
Officials are wary, noting previous negotiations have failed because officials have been duped into talks with the wrong people.
The two other parents, who travelled with Galang to Mubi, were able to identify their daughters in the video. “We are pleading with the government to help”.
Salkida was declared wanted alongside two others on Sunday for their alleged ties to Boko Haram.
Ahmad Salkida, the Nigerian journalist declared wanted by the Nigerian army, says he will be in the country soon if the authorities send him an air ticket.
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It has been over two years since the Islamic terrorism group Boko Haram kidnapped almost 300 girls from Chibok, Nigeria, an act of abduction that gained worldwide attention in part thanks to the hashtag “Bring Back Our Girls”.
