“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.
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Nigeria’s army has declared three people, including a journalist, wanted for allegedly concealing information on more than 200 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014, a spokesman said today. Dozens of girls managed to escape in the hours after the ambush, but the fate of the missing 218 girls remains unknown.
He also said 40 girls have been “married”.
The video shows a militant warning in the Hausa language that if President Muhammadu Buhari’s government battles Boko Haram with firepower, the girls won’t be seen again.
It has been mixed emotions for the girl’s parents. The girl also says in the video that “military jets have killed some of the girls”. “I saw her sitting down”, said Samuel Yaga, father of schoolgirl Serah Samuel.
The Army called on the general public to provide information on the whereabouts of the wanted persons, adding that it is working with other security agencies for their arrest if they fail to turn up.
One of the girls then addresses the camera, saying: “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”.
The government says it is in touch with the militants behind the video.
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.
The decision to release Boko Haram suspects in exchange for abducted Chibok schoolgirls as being demanded by the terror sect, will be a political decision.
At the end of the 11 1/2 minute long video, bodies can be seen on the ground.
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok provoked global outrage and brought unprecedented attention to Boko Haram and its bloody quest to create a fundamentalist state in northeastern Nigeria.
In the video, one of the girls-identified as Maida Yakubu-is questioned by a masked fighter.
Boko Haram, which pledges allegiance to ISIS, has been devastating Nigeria for years.
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Nigeria has witnessed more than seven years of fighting that has left more than 20,000 people dead and driven 2.2 million people from their homes. “Though they may not appreciate all my efforts to profer peaceful solutions to the menace of bh (Boko Haram), my name should not be mudslinged nor my character defamed”.
