Boko Haram: Trio wanted over Chibok girls video threatened by army

– The Nigerian army has sent cold threats to the trio wanted over the latest Chibok girls video

– Two of the three wanted persons are said to be uncooperative with the army

– The army says further engagements with the wanted persons will be on its terms

The Nigerian army has said that Ahmed Bolori and Aisha Wakil, two of the three Nigerians declared wanted by the military on Sunday in connection with Boko Haram have refused to cooperate.

A statement by the army on Monday, August 15 partly read: “Please note that (sic) failed to give us more details,” it said in the statement, signed by acting Nigerian army spokesperson Col SK Usman, adding: “They were evasive. They wanted everything on their terms.”

Without being specific as to their encounter with Bolori and Wakil, who had both expressed their desire to cooperate, the military sounded threatening, saying that further engagement would be on its terms.

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“We are determined,” it said.  “They must cooperate. We have cleared most the BHT hideouts. Though few are remaining. Our target is the remaining camps that are not accessible during the rains.  They must mention their BHT contacts and their locations.”

The statement explained that this new approach is strategic “to engage the alleged BHT negotiators so as to weaken their propaganda base.”

“We cannot continue to drag this war any further. The military approach should be devoid of rhetorical postulation. We want actionable information for planning and execution of our operations,” the army concluded.

The statement did not say if Bolori and Wakil are now under arrest, or whether they are being represented by lawyers.  At least one of them had indicated knowledge of Boko Haram, and previous attempts to arrange discussions between the group and the army that were spurned by officials.

According to Sahara Reporters, the third Nigerian declared wanted, Ahmed Salkida, a journalist, is in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates with his family.

No information was given in the statement about him, but he had asked the military earlier in the day to expedite his travel home by sending him an invitation and sending a flight ticket.

Premium Times earlier reported that Aisha Wakil, the Nigerian lawyer who was declared wanted by the Nigerian army, had been spotted at the Defence Headquarters.

The female lawyer had been declared wanted by the Nigerian army, alongside two others for allegedly having links with Boko Haram.

Speaking after the visit, she said: “They told me they will go and read and get back to me.”

According to reports, the lawyer was relieved of her passport by a supervisor, who promised to return it ten minutes later.

Meanwhile, parents of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram more than two years ago said on Monday they felt wounded after watching a video posted by the Islamist militants that showed dozens of the girls.

In the video published by the militants on social media on Sunday, a masked man stands behind a group of the girls, and says some of them have been killed in air strikes.

Reuters reports that many of the girls’ parents in the northeastern town of Chibok said they tried to watch the video straight away, but were unable to see it due to the poor internet connection.

Three of the parents on Monday drove two hours to the nearby town of Mubi, where they used a computer in a church to watch the video – hoping to see their daughters alive.

“I couldn’t identify my daughter among the girls,” Yana Galang, the women’s leader of the Association of Parents of the Abducted Girls from Chibok, said after watching the video.

“It wounded my heart,” Galang told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone, describing how she broke down in tears and found herself unable to watch the whole video.

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Boko Haram kidnapped 219 girls from their school in Chibok, in April 2014, as part of a seven-year-old insurgency to set up an Islamic state in the north that has killed some 15,000 people and displaced more than two million.

Some girls escaped in the melee but parents of those still missing accused former President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s then leader, of not doing enough to find their daughters, whose disappearance sparked a global campaign #bringbackourgirls.

In the video, one veiled girl could be seen holding a baby, while unidentified bodies could be seen on the ground.

“Some of the girls, about 40 of them with God’s permission have been married, some of them have died as a result of bombing by the infidels,” said the masked man in the video.

The two other parents, who travelled with Galang to Mubi, were able to identify their daughters in the video.

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