Boko Haram releases video of purported Chibok girls
May 13, 2017
Seen wearing a black veil and holding a gun, girl claims to be from Chibok and says she was kidnapped in April 2014.
Some of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls released in October 2016 by Boko Haram look on before meeting the president [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]
Boko Haram released a video late on Friday claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of a recent swap deal with the Nigerian government.
In the three-minute video, a woman who claims to be Maida Yakubu, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014, is seen wearing a black veil and holding a gun.
Flanked by three other women clad in black, she proclaims her loyalty to Boko Haram, the group that has killed more than 20,000 people since taking up arms against the Nigerian government in 2009.
When asked by a man in the background why she doesn’t want to go back home to her parents, she replies: “The reason is that they live in the town of unbelief. We want them to accept Islam.”
The woman then speaks in the local Chibok dialect for the rest of the video.
