Boko Haram video shows the missing girls, dad told

Boko Haram video shows the missing girls, dad told |

Yakubu Kabu confirmed to CNN that he had seen his daughter talking to the new video, which requires the release of fighters Boko Haram in exchange for the abducted girls.

The Nigerian government said it is still "in touch" with Boko Haram and "working for the release of the girls," the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture said on their Facebook page official.

"We exercise great caution because the situation was compounded by the split of the management of Boko Haram," said Alhaji Lai Mohammed, information minister of culture, said the statement.

in the video masked militant Boko Haram, holding a rifle, speaks in the Hausa language in front of a group of about 50 girls wearing headscarves.

a girl is charged on to answer questions about who she is and she gives her name as Maida Yakubu.

Yakubu is then said to convey a message to the Nigerian government to ask them to release fighters Boko Haram are in prison.

She also pleaded with the girls' parents to intervene so that she and others can be released by the militant group.

"We are not happy to live here, "said Yakubu in the video. "I am begging our parents to meet with the government to liberate their people so that we can be freed"

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Forty married girls

father Yakubu told CNN that her daughter is also known as Dorcas Yakubu He said. "I'm very, very happy to have seen my daughter on video and I'm very happy she's alive Some people said the abduction is not true Some people said they are not alive now, I see it ... and I know she is OK ".

Kabu added that he recognized many other girls Chibok in the video clip.

The video, more than 11 minutes, is addressed to "the families of Chibok girls."

In April 2014, the Boko Haram militants have abducted 276 teenage girls from their boarding school in Chibok. Approximately 57 girls managed to escape, but about 200 girls are still missing. in May, a girl, Amina Ali was found living on the edge of the Sambisa forest, which is considered the stronghold of the terrorist group.

in the new video, some of the girls stare blankly into the camera while others seem petrified as the man reels off a series of demands, including the release of fighters in exchange for Boko Haram abducted girls.

the video also shows what appears to be several girls dead and wounded scattered on the ground. the man claims some of the girls were killed by an air strike by Nigerian military aircraft.

The activist also said 40 girls were married.

It then issues a threat, saying the girls will never be saved alive if the government uses force to save them.

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Power Struggle

It is unclear when the video was shot, but it seems to be done in a style similar to a video obtained by CNN in April 2016 and other video Boko Haram previously published.

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Sources believe that the timing of this new video is no coincidence as it comes on the back of a leadership crisis within Boko Haram.

Earlier this month, ISIS introduced a new leader named Boko Haram Abu Musab al-Barnawi. They believe that the long-time leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has released this video to assert its authority over the militant group.

Shehu Sani, a Nigerian senator, told CNN: "This is more than a show of force to the Nigerian government and ISIS Shekau wants to show the country and the world that he is fully in charge and . it is one that should be negotiated. "

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Sani, a former negotiator and mediator with Boko Haram, added that was difficult for the Nigerian government to negotiate with Boko haram to release the girls as "there is a lack of trust on both sides."

Why did it take so long?

the removal has always been overshadowed by skepticism in Nigeria, where the parents of the missing girls had to fend off accusations it is in fact a hoax orchestrated by opposing political parties.

net divide between Muslim North and Christian South of the country may also have influenced the apparent reluctance of the former Christian President Goodluck Jonathan south to act on a northern Muslim problem.

"This is a government that is not only in denial mentally, but in denial of some obvious steps to take, "the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate who is often referred to as the conscience of his nation, said Chief International Correspondent Christiane CNN's Amanpour in May 2014.

"It's one of those situations instead of children like that if you close your eyes, if you do not have the tactile proof of humanity missing here in somehow the problem will disappear, "he said

since President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from Daura in the north, was elected in May last year, there was a ramp until -. if not entirely successful - repression against Boko Haram.

But a lack of trust between the government and Boko Haram has added to fears that any rescue attempt by the military could end fatal accidents.