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Boko Haram releases new videos of Chibok girls, police wives
The faction of Boko Haram terrorists led by Abubakar Shekau has released new videos showing the Chibok girls, and wives of police officers purportedly kidnapped sometime ago.
The short videos showed about 14 girls who were said to be part of the school girls abducted from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014.
They were covered in face veils with about three of them carrying babies, while one spoke for the group in Hausa.
One of the students said: “We are the Chibok girls… . By the grace of Allah, we will not return to you.”
Continuing, she stated that they had all been married by Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Shekau.
“We live in comfort. He provides us with everything. We lack nothing,” she added.
Shekau is also seen in the video, firing a heavy machine gun and making a 13-minute-long sermon.
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The jihadists seized 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in the mostly Christian town in Borno state on April 14, 2014, triggering global condemnation.
Fifty-nine of them managed to escape in the hours that followed, and 107 of the girls have now been either found, rescued or released as part of government negotiations with the Islamic State group affiliate.
On January 4, the Nigerian army said it had rescued one of the girls’ classmates in the remote Pulka region of Borno, near the border with Cameroon.
Another video showed women who were said to wives of policemen who were also abducted sometime ago.
The women who killed frightened begged to be rescued and taken home.
It is however not clear when the videos were shot.
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