The schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militant group Boko Haram have been paraded on video.
The terror group said all of them had been converted to Islam while being held and all were shown wearing headscarfs.
The group’s leader said that they will release them in exchange for militant prisoners being freed.
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Chilling: The schoolgirls were paraded on video by Boko Haram
Captured: The video shows the girls wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location
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Deal: Boko Haram said the schoolgirls would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed
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The suspected leader of the Nigerian Islamist group, Imam Abu Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Abubakar Ash Shekawi, also known as Abubakar Shekau, at an undisclosed location in Nigeria
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Extremist group Boko Haram seized 276 girls who were taking exams at a school in Borno’s north-eastern village of Chibok on April 14
The video was aired after the governor of the Nigerian state from where the schoolgirls were kidnapped said that he knew where some of them are being held.
Kashim Shettima, the Governor of Borno, said that he’d received reports of sightings of the girls and had passed on this information to the military.
Extremist group Boko Haram seized 276 girls who were taking exams at a school in Borno’s north-eastern village of Chibok on April 14. Some managed to escape, but around 200 remain missing.
Mr Shettima told the
BBC: ‘We’ve got reports of them being sighted in some locations – which we have conveyed to the relevant military authorities, for them to cross-check, verify and get additional information on the accurate location of the daughters.’
His comments came as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, called for negotiations with the terrorist group over the fate of the missing girls.
The Archbishop, who has acted as a hostage negotiator in Nigeria on behalf of the Church in the past, said the girls were at ‘colossal’ risk.
‘They are in the hands of a very disparate group which is extremely irrational and difficult to deal with – and utterly merciless,’ he told BBC Radio Four’s The World This Weekend programme.
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Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima said that he’d received reports of sightings of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist group Boko Haram
culled from dailymail.co.uk
I just pray the girls are brought back safely. But this is a shame on the Federal Govt.
ReplyDeletewhat are the Americans doing till now, they should go in there and release this girls.
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