The Nigerian army has said that a journalist and two others are wanted for questioning after the armed group Boko Haram released a new video purporting to show some schoolgirls abducted in Chibok more than two years ago.
The army says it said it wanted to question Ahmed Salkida and two other persons, Ahmed U Bolori and Aisha Wakil, because of their alleged link with Boko Haram.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the acting director of army public relations, said in a press statement issued on Sunday: “There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them.
“They must therefore come forward and tell us where the group is keeping the Chibok Girls and other abducted persons to enable us rescue them.”
Hours before Boko Haram released the video purporting to show the abducted Chibok girls, Salkida said he had seen the footage that he claimed was “exclusively” sent to him by the fighters.
I’m studying the video of the #Chibokgirls that was sent exclusively to me before their abductors upload on it YouTube later. @BBOG_Nigeria
— Ahmad Salkida (@ContactSalkida) August 13, 2016
Wakil, a lawyer, was in contact with the Nigerian government during the 2013 amnesty negotiations with Boko Haram fighters, Premium Times Nigeria reported.
Bolori is known as coordinator of the Faash Foundation and the Partnership Against Violent Extremism (PAVE).
He lives in Maiduguri, Boko Haram’s birthplace.
