Schoolgirls kidnapped Boko Haram released video first footage of girls

Schoolgirls kidnapped Boko Haram released video first footage of girls. Shows 15 girls in black robes identifying themselves as pupils abducted.

Boko Haram released video of kidnapped schoolgirls.

Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram appears to show some of the schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago from the town of Chibok.

Schoolgirls kidnapped Boko Haram released video first footage of girls.

Schoolgirls kidnapped Boko Haram released video first footage of girls.

The video, apparently filmed in December, sent to the Nigerian government and shows 15 girls.

In black robes identifying themselves as pupils abducted from the school.

Some of those filmed identified their parents. It is the first footage of the girls to be seen since May 2014.

The kidnapping of the 276 girls triggered the global social media campaign  involving US first lady  and a host of celebrities.

Abuja says they blame the previous government for doing nothing when the abduction took place.

And now the current administration for failing to devote enough resources to the search.

Boko Haram militants attacked the government boarding school in Borno state on 14 April 2014, seizing the girls who had gone there to take exams.

Shortly afterwards they released a video of them and demanded a prisoner exchange.

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls had converted to Islam and he threatened to force them into marriage with his fighters or sell them into slavery.

As the months passed, about 57 students managed to escape but at least 219 are still missing.

The latest video, apparently filmed on Christmas Day 2015 and now broadcast on CNN.

Schoolgirls kidnapped Boko Haram released video first footage of girls.

Shows the girls pleading with the Nigerian government to co-operate with militants on their release.

They said they were being treated well but wanted to be with their families. Two mothers, Rifkatu Ayuba and Mary Ishaya.

Said they recognised their daughters in the video while a third mother, Yana Galang, identified five of the missing girls, Reuters reported.