Terror : Boko Haram Releases Video Showing 50 chibok Girls, Military Releases Statement

Video posted on social video reportedly shows some of the 300 girls who were kidnapped more than two years ago. 

Boko Haram has released a video of the Nigerian schoolgirls allegedly kidnapped two years ago, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes. 

The armed group, which has attacked both Muslims and Christians, seized 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the immediate aftermath. 


"They should know that their children are still in our hands," says a man whose face was covered by a turban in the video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the AFP News agency reported. 

Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Lagos, said the man in the video claimed to be the successor to Abubakar Shekau and called on the Nigerian government to release the groups' fighters from prisons. 

Earlier this month, ISIL named Abu Musab al-Barnawi as Boko Haram's new leader, replacing Shekau, who's seven-year rule killed more than 20,000 people and drove more than 2.2 millon from their homes. 

"The speaker said military air strikes had killed many of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, and he asked the parents of these girls to press the government to release the groups' fighters from prisons across Nigeria," Idris said. 

"The speaker also said that 40 of the schoolgirls were married, some were killed by airstrikes and there were several injuries. 


He also used the video opportunity to assure his comrades in prison and urged them to be resilient and assured them they would be soon be freed," our correspondent added

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has just issued the statement below reacting to Boko Haram’s new video accusing it of killing some of the abducted girls in air strikes.
The Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar disclosed that the military is examining the video clip to verify its authenticity. 
He said: “Currently we are studying the video clips to verify its authenticity and analysing the comments of the speakers in the video especially the terrorist member and the girl that spoke in mother tongue.”
General Rabe also disputed allegations in the video that some of the kidnapped girls were hit by an airstrike.

He said: “It is extremely difficult and rare to hit innocent people during airstrike because the operation is done through precision attack on identified and registered targets and locations. The Precision Airstrike is very effective at taking out targeted enemies because it is not a random operation. We are nevertheless studying the video clips to examine if the victims died from other causes rather from the allegation of airstrike.

PRNigeria gathered that the Nigerian Airforce through its Component in Operation Lafiya Dole was focusing on sustaining air operations and providing support to ground troops of the Armed Forces’ strive to rid Nigeria of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Airstrikes are controlled by professionally trained officers who coordinate the strike with friendly ground troops, after a lot of surveillance to limit casualty on the ground.
A top airforce officer told PRNigeria that 

“Nigeria Airforce employs precision guided weapons with modern Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance systems to reduce likely collateral damage from any airstrike. All the areas stroke throughout the operation were thoroughly monitored on intelligence surveillance and eye services before the attacks or shelling. Most of the targets areas were clearly identified before the air strikes to avoid collateral damages.”

Meanwhile the Defence Headquarters has promised to issue an update after its investigation.



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