At Least 80 Abducted Girls Not Identified From Boko Haram Video

At least 80 out of 276 kidnapped GGSS female students were not seen in the video released by Boko Haram. Parents are getting depressed as the whereabouts of their children remain unknown.

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Protesters demand to rescue the Chibok girls. Credit: Turner.com

Four girls escaped on the day of the abduction and 53 more ran away later. 137 girls were counted in the video released by the Islamist sect on Monday. The parents, however, have identified only 77 teenagers.

An official in Chibok told Daily Trust that some parents whose wards were abducted and not seen in the video were having relentless time.

“Many mothers are reluctant to eat because they don’t know the fate of their daughters,” the official said.

“We strongly believe that the remaining 83 girls who were not seen in the video are the ones that did not convert to Islam,” the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum in Abuja, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, said yesterday.

Bitrus pointed out that girls’ conversion to Islam is not an issue to their parents as most families in Chibok have christians and muslims.

There have been conflicting reports about the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok today. Should the president go, this will be his first visit to the affected town since the girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 15.

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