The video showed a masked armed man standing in front of several girls, who, he claimed, were the over 200 girls abducted from their school hostel at Government Secondary School, Chibok, in 2014. Let them get ready because every day we shall be marching to the (Presidential) villa.
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The mass abduction in April 2014 brought Boko Haram to the world’s attention and even got the participation of United States first lady Michelle Obama in the #Bring Back Our Girls social media campaign, promising her husband would do all in his power to help liberate them.
WorldStage Newsonline- Nigerian Army said troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE at harbour in Kangarwa successfully repelled suspected remnants of Boko Haram terrorists attack.
Ezekwesili made the comment following Boko Haram’s new video showing some of the girls alive.
“Boko Haram in the video asked the government to release their members so that they could release our girls”.
In a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman, Salkida was wanted in connection with the last two videos released by Boko Haram terrorists and other findings.
“Clearly, my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace in the country since 2006 is an open book known to Nigerians and the global community”.
Dorcas’ father, Kabu Yakubu, urged the government to release Boko Haram detainees in exchange for the Chibok girls, adding that the demand had boosted his hope that his daughter and others would eventually make it home.
“I couldn’t identify my daughter among the girls”, Yana Galang, the women’s leader of the Association of Parents of the Abducted Girls from Chibok, said after watching the video. But efforts to free, let alone locate, the girls have proved futile, even as thousands of other Boko Haram prisoners have been released and most of the land occupied by the group has been retaken.
She said this after seeing her daughter speak in the new video released by the Boko Haram insurgents demanding swap of their detained members with the Chibock girls. Since their kidnap, the Nigerian government has faced widespread criticism for its failure to rescue the schoolgirls. “We are also being guided by the need to ensure the safety of the girls”.
Boko Haram recently split into two factions, one of which claims to be the true regional branch of the Islamic State militant group.
The video goes on to show bodies from an alleged air raid, including that of a girl whose eyes flicker open briefly.
While the military has gained important wins in the fight against the group under Buhari, reclaiming territory and destroying Boko Harm’s strongholds, the only success that can be claimed with regard to the kidnapped girls is the rescue of one of them in May.
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It’s not clear how many schoolgirls have died among the 218 who remain missing.
