“For over two years that we have been with these girls, about 40 of them have been married, some are dead as a result of airstrikes by infidels”.
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The Defence Headquarters had in a statement released shortly after the video went viral on the Internet denied killing the girls and said it was examining its authenticity. The aircraft has come to bombard us and killed many of us. “There is no kind of suffering we haven’t seen”. So are our babies.
“As long as the government does not release our people, we will also never release these girls”.
“We want the government to move quickly, because some girls are suffering, they are very very sick, some are in a bad condition”, he added. “We are really suffering, there is no food to eat, no good water to drink here”.
The mass abduction brought Boko Haram to the world’s attention and even got the participation of USA 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.
“When I heard her voice, I realised she is my daughter”, Kanu Yakubu told reporters in Abuja. Hundreds of other girls and boys have also been kidnapped and murdered by the group.
The release of a video showing some of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted more than two years ago is being greeted with a mixture of joy and despair among the girls’ parents.
Some 218 remain missing in the mass kidnapping that shocked the world and even brought USA first lady Michelle Obama to participate in the #Bring Back Our Girls social media campaign, promising her husband would do all in his power to help liberate them.
Last week, the shadowy Shekau appeared in a video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an apparent split after he was said to have been replaced by Islamic State-backed rival Abu Musab al-Barnawi.
About 2,000 girls and boys have been abducted by Boko Haram since 2014, with many used as sex slaves, fighters and even suicide bombers, according to Amnesty International, the London-based human-rights organisation.
He claims five of the Chibok girls were killed by Nigerian military jets during an attack on the group’s compound.
But the missing Chibok schoolgirls were not among them, despite several unconfirmed sightings.
In Boko Haram’s latest release of a video containing the Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Borno, 50 of those girls were seen.
The mass abduction in April 2014 brought Boko Haram to the world’s attention and even got the participation of USA 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.
The kidnapping of the Chibok girls has become a hot political issue in Nigeria, with the government and military criticised for their handling of the incident and their failure to rescue any of the girls. The escapee said some of the girls had died but scores remained in captivity under heavy guard.
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She begs for help and urges the Nigerian government to release imprisoned Boko Haram fighters so that she and her fellow students can be freed in exchange.
