CHIBOK ABDUCTION: BOKO HARAM RELEASES A NEW VIDEO, CHIBOK GIRLS VERY ILL

It has been revealed, that members of the boko haram sect has released another video, though it is yet to be made available to the public.

According to the sun news, the new video showed the Chibok schoolgirls pleading to the Federal Government over the proposed deal for their release.

In an exclusive report, a London-based newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, said the video shows the girls speaking about their ordeal.
According to the newspa­per, the video, which is yet to be released publicly, was taken in a jungle a month after the girls’ abduction.

The Mail reported that in the video, eight girls, dressed in their home-made school uniforms of pale blue ging­ham, pleaded for release.

Each of the girls, the news­paper reported, walked in turn to a spot in front of a white sheet fixed to a crude frame between the trees to speak be­fore the camera. Four of them, it stated, spoke in Hausa lan­guage, stating that they were taken by force and that they were hungry.
A tall girl, aged about 18, the report stated, said tear­fully: ‘My family will be so worried.’

Another, speaking softly, said: ‘I never expected to suf­fer like this in my life,’ the re­port stated, adding that a third said: ‘They have taken us away by force.’ The fourth girl complained: ‘We are not get­ting enough food,’ The Mail reported. Continue...
The video, taken by an intermediary on May 19, the newspaper stated, has been shown to President Goodluck Jonathan. It was intended to serve as ‘proof of life’ for the girls and to encourage the President to accede to the terrorists’ demands, it reported.


Meanwhile, Dr Stephen Davis, an Australian, a hostage negotiator who has advised the Nigerian president on how to negotiate with the country’s militant groups, has spent the past month trying to help free the girls.

“The vast majority of the Chibok girls are not be­ing held in Nigeria,’ he said. “They are in camps across the Nigerian border in Cam­eroon, Chad and Niger. I say the ‘vast majority’ as I know a small group was confirmed to me to be in Nigeria last week when we sought to have them released.”

He described how fraught the negotiation process has been. “One of that small group of girls is ill and we had hoped we might convince the com­mander of the group holding her that she should be released so we could give her medical treatment,” Davis said.

He added: “There are other girls who are not well and we have come close to having them released but their captors fear a trap in which they will be captured in the handover process.

“One girl has what I assume is a broken wrist as they dem­onstrate to me how she holds her hand. I have been told that others are sick and in need of medical attention.”