The Boko Haram sect has declared that many of the abducted Chibok girls have been killed in the ongoing military airstrikes on the group’s positions in the heart of Sambisa forest.
Abubakar Shekau, factional leader of the Boko Haram, in a just-released video stated that his group has also married off more than 40 of the Chibok schoolgirls the sect abducted two years ago in Borno State.
The video runs for 10 minutes and 22 seconds.
The video was released on Shekau’s behalf by one of his lieutenants dressed in a green camouflage, armed with a gun and surrounded by some of the Chibok girls.
Speaking in Hausa language, he dared the Nigerian Armed Forces to capture the Chibok girls alive through military warfare.
A journalist with links to the sect, Ahmed Salkida, said that the group had released the video recording of the killing of the Chibok girls in air strikes.
In a series of tweets on his Tweeter Handle @ContactSalkida, monitored by our correspondent in Maiduguri, Salkida confirmed watching “horrifying” images of some of the Chibok girls allegedly killed by the Nigerian military airstrikes.
Salkida said that the video was exclusively released to him by Abubakar Shekau, the ousted leader of the religious sect.
He, however, did not say when the video was released to him.
“I’m studying the video of the Chibok girls that was sent exclusively to me before their abductors upload on it You Tube later, @ BBOG_Nigeria,” he tweeted.
Salkida had earlier tweeted, ”Just in: Jama’atu Ahlil Sunnah Li-Da’awati Wal-Jihad #BH has released a video showing the abducted #Chibokgirls and restating their demands.
“This is the second time Shekau has ordered a video of the girls to be released to the public, since the abduction of the girls 852 days ago.
“Many of the girls can be seen in the video, a Chibok girl speaks in her mother tongue and narrates how airstrikes has killed dozens of her mates. More to come.”
