Boko Haram on Monday released a new video purposely to show at least 14 of the Chibok school girls who mass kidnapping nearly four years ago became a symbol of Nigeria's brutal conflict.
But despite a conjuct global campaign for their release, and talks between the government and the militants, the girls shown in the recording vowed not to return to their paren
ts.
The 20-minute long video is the first sin May last year when another woman who also claimed to be among the 219 seized form the town in Born state said she wanted to stay.
Both videos will compound the suffering of the girls' families and friends but also indicate the extent to which thye may have become influence by their captors.
All of those who were shown on camera were wearing black or blue hijabs and at least there were carrying babies.
One of the students, her face covered by a veil, said: "We are the Chibok firls that you cry for us to return to you. By the grace of Allah, we will not return to you. Poor souls, we pity our other Chibok girls who chose to return to Nigeria. Allah blessed you and brought you the caliphate for you to worship your creator. But instead you chose to return to unbelief."
It was not clear when or where the latest message, in Hausa and the local Chibok language, was recorded or whether those who appeared on camera were under duress.
The woman speaking said the Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Shekau had "married us off"
"We live in comfort. H provides us with everything. We lack nothing," she added.
Shekau was also seen, firing a heavy machine gun and making a 13-minute long sermon in which he said the remaining girls had "understood the folly" of secular education.
Boko Haram seized 276 students form the Government Girls Secondary School in the mostly Christian town on April 14, 2014, triggering global condemnation.
Fifty nine of them managed to escape in the hours that followed.
A total of 107 girls have now been either found, rescued or released as part of government negotiations with the group affiliate.
They have now returned to the northeast and are back in education at the American University of Nigeria, in the Adamawa state capital, Yola.
Source: punchng
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