Boko Haram To Abduct More Girls

The Boko Haram Islamist sect intends to abduct more girls following the ‘successful’ kidnap of 276 girls of Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.

According to a member of the group who was speaking on Tuesday during an interview with American commercial broadcast television network, CBS, the girls were abducted because there are enemies among them.

“You see the enemies among the children”, said the man who introduced himself as Saleh Abubakar.

“It is accepted to fire on all of them. You cannot differentiate the children. You understand?” 

Selah refuted reports that some of the kidnapped girls are sick and requiring medical attention, saying he saw them three weeks ago, and all of them were fine.

“It’s a lie”, he said. “They don’t have any problem at all”.

However, he said the girls would not be sold to slavery (as Abubakar Shekau initially said), because they had converted willingly to Islam. But he maintained that the government must first release all Boko Haram fighters currently in detention. 

Saleh shunned questions on whether the girls had truly been moved across the Nigerian border, as well as al-Qaeda’s alleged sponsorship of Boko Haram.

“No, no. I will not tell you anything about this,” he said. “But they are my brothers in Islam. Even in America, we have brothers.”

On whether Boko Haram intends to kidnap more girls, he said: “Yes, there are plans; yes.”