By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
Some parents of the school girls abducted at Goverment Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists have distanced themselves from the latest video purportedly released by the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau who claimed that the kidnapped students, particularly the Christians have been converted to Islam, stressing that they could not identify any of their daughters in the clip obtained by AFP.
It would be recalled that Governor Shettima ordered the mass production of the video for possible identification by parents after saw the clip on the BBC world service. The governor therefore directed transfer of the video into mobile storage devices under the care of some of his officials,including the Chairman of Chibok local government area, who have been given the task of showing the videos to parents, some abducted but freed students, teachers and management staff of the school.
Mallam Zannah Chibok, one of the parents, after watching the video said he couldn’t identify any of his daughters in the video, pointing out that some of the faces in the video are not even students, considering their ages that can be put at between 30 and 40 years old.
Likewise, another parent who did not want his name mentioned for security reasons, admitted that he watched the video on a cable news channel, as well as on the social media, but to his dismay, he couldn’t identify any of his missing daughters in the video.
Also speaking to our correspondent on phone, some parents and other residents of Chibok, especially those residing in remote villages said they are yet to come across any video, not to talk of identifying their missing daughters.
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