Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned
even more nightmarish today, Monday 5th May, when the leader of the Islamist group, Boko Haram that
kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.
"I abducted your
girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," a man claiming to be
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
said in a video first obtained by Agence
France-Presse.
"There is a
market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I
will sell women. I sell women," he continued, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa
language.
Boko Haram means "Western
education is sin." In his nearly hour long, rambling video, Shekau
repeatedly called for Western education to end.
"Girls, you
should go and get married," he said.
The outrageous threat means the girls' parents’ worst fears
could be realized. Parents have been avoiding speaking to the media for fear
their daughters may be singled out for reprisals.
"Wherever these
girls are, we'll get them out," Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
vowed Sunday.
But weeks after the girls were kidnapped April 14, Africa's
largest country seems to be no closer to finding them, triggering complaints of
ineptitude, some of which is expressed on Twitter with the globally trending
hashtag #BringBackOu
Source: CNN
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