Boko Haram video claims to show abducted girls killed in airstrikes

He said the military was examining the latest video from Boko Haram purporting to show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.

The Federal Government has said it has not relented efforts in ensuring the release of the abducted Chibok girls, while putting and end to the saga of their abduction.

The militant group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State previous year. These girls had been spread around different cells under the control of Abubakar Shakau at the time of abduction – with the current factional split it is likely that some of them are no longer under his control.

The militant claimed that they would murder the surviving girls if the government made any attempt of rescuing them using any other method than what they have demanded. Tell the government to give [Boko Haram] their people, so we can come home to you. This is likely to avoid a repeat of an embarrassing hoax a few months after the girls were kidnapped which saw the government negotiate with the wrong people.

It’s estimated that the terrorist group killed more than 6,000 people in attacks a year ago.

“When I heard her voice, I realized she is my daughter”, Kanu Yakubu told reporters in Abuja.

Kabu added that he recognized many other girls from Chibok in the video clip.

In the hours that followed the 2014 mass kidnap, dozens of girls managed to escape. As the camera pans, viewers see a somber scene of girls wearing head scarves while at least one girl holds a baby, indicating that the girls are being forcibly married and birthing children for the fighters.

Barnawi has criticised Shekau’s indiscriminate and brutal leadership in Nigeria that has seen Boko Haram fighters kill thousands of people in mosques and markets and raze entire cities to the ground.

However, the recent video released by the insurgent group if real, means the school girls are much alive. The group claims their deaths were the result of a military airstrike – though the military disputed that claim.

“The speaker also said that 40 of the schoolgirls were married [to Boko Haram fighters], some were killed by airstrikes and there were several injuries”. “We’ve always believed they will be back, but it’s also painful”, he said, criticizing the government for being unable to rescue the girls. Salkida became prominent because of his access to the Boko Haram sect. And yet Boko Haram still flaunts their custody of the schoolgirls and emphasizes their perilous circumstances.

The video, cited by the SITE Intelligence Group, was posted by Ahmad Salkida, a Nigerian journalist known to have good contacts in Boko Haram. “Shekau wants to show the country and the world that he is fully in charge and that he is the one that should be negotiated with”.