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LAGOS – Leader of the Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents Abubakar Shekau has in a new video released on Friday said that the over 200 abducted schoolgirls have been married to members of the group.
The video came to alter the general expectations from Nigerians that the girls might be released on Friday following an improved negotiation with the militants somewhere in Chad Republic. A Xinhua reporter who watched the video in the country's northeast city of Maiduguri, said the Boko Haram leader also disowned Danladi Adamu, the man who claimed to be the Scribe of the sect.
Adamu quoted Shekau as saying that there was no cease-fire deal with the Nigerian government. Last month, Nigeria's Defence Chief Alex Badeh announced that an agreement had been reached with the Boko Haram insurgents to end the hostilities and release the school girls who were earlier abducted by the terror group.
Badeh said that he issued a directive to the members of the armed forces to comply with the cease-fire agreement, and that the Boko Haram, which seeks to enshrine the Islamic Sharia law in the Nigerian constitution, had also assured that the school girls and all other people in their captivity are all alive and well.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is currently grappling with security challenges, including the insurgency of Boko Haram.
