MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The leader of Boko Haram has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the Nigerian government, and said he married off the more than 200 schoolgirls that the Islamic extremist group kidnapped.
In a new video released late Friday night, Abubakar Shekau dashed hopes for a prisoner exchange to get the girls released
“The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off,” he said, laughing. “In this war, there is no going back.”
Nigeria’s chief of defense staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on Oct. 17 announced that Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate cease-fire to end a 5-year-old insurgency that has killed thousands of people, and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes in northeast Nigeria. Read more…
More about Kidnapping, Us World, World, Nigeria, and Boko Haram
Boko Haram denies cease-fire, leader says he married off kidnapped girls
No comments:
Post a Comment