A journalist Ahmad Salkida, who is known for close relationship and ties with terror Boko Haram sect leaders, claims that the Chibok girls, kidnapped a year ago by terrorists are still alive and in good health.
Salkida gave rare and exclusive interview to the BBC Hausa Service.
He said the girls are valuable to the group, because they’ve comprised the group’s ideology and are closely protected by the leadership of the group.
Ahmed Salkida was the only one among journalists who have visited the forest where the girls were firstly held after their kidnapping, when he tried to mediate between the government and the group.
He claims his mediation effort was abandoned on the instructions of the Nigerian government.
The journalist also marked the year of abduction via his Twitter account.
365days in captivity. It shud be a day of sackcloths & mourning for all. How can we rescue wen we can’t get basic informatn on #ChibokGirls
Raad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official, last week, said that the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by horror Boko Haram sect a year ago may have been slaughtered.
The kidnapping that tossed Boko Haram into the global attention was just the tip of almost six years of bloodshed from a group seeking to impose a caliphate on Africa’s largest and religiously mixed nation.
Countless other families have been left drifting in a limbo of uncertainty.
According to Amnesty International, 2,000 women and girls have been abducted since the start of 2014.
It has been a year since more than 200 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in a late-night raid.
The leader of Boko Haram, Aboubakar Shekau, claims that all of the girls have since been converted to Islam and married off.
Salkida gave rare and exclusive interview to the BBC Hausa Service.
He said the girls are valuable to the group, because they’ve comprised the group’s ideology and are closely protected by the leadership of the group.
Ahmed Salkida was the only one among journalists who have visited the forest where the girls were firstly held after their kidnapping, when he tried to mediate between the government and the group.
He claims his mediation effort was abandoned on the instructions of the Nigerian government.
The journalist also marked the year of abduction via his Twitter account.
365days in captivity. It shud be a day of sackcloths & mourning for all. How can we rescue wen we can’t get basic informatn on #ChibokGirls
Raad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official, last week, said that the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by horror Boko Haram sect a year ago may have been slaughtered.
The kidnapping that tossed Boko Haram into the global attention was just the tip of almost six years of bloodshed from a group seeking to impose a caliphate on Africa’s largest and religiously mixed nation.
Countless other families have been left drifting in a limbo of uncertainty.
According to Amnesty International, 2,000 women and girls have been abducted since the start of 2014.
It has been a year since more than 200 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in a late-night raid.
The leader of Boko Haram, Aboubakar Shekau, claims that all of the girls have since been converted to Islam and married off.
