Nigeria declares 3 suspects wanted over links with Boko Haram

The Nigerian Army on Sunday declared a journalist and two other persons wanted over their alleged links with the Boko Haram sect.

One of the three persons declared wanted by the Army is Ahmed Salkida, a journalist, who had on Sunday claimed that the Boko Haram group had released a video recording of the killing of scores of the Chibok girls in air strikes by the Nigerian military to him.

The other two are (Ambassador) Ahmed U. Bolori and Aisha Wakil.

The Army alleged that the three were also to privy to information on the conditions and exact location of the missing Chibok girls.

Spokesperson for the Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said in a statement reaching Xinhua that the three persons were wanted for interrogation on their links with the militant sect.

A faction of Boko Haram militants, which seeks to impose strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria, on Sunday released a new video showing the abducted Chibok girls and claiming that some of the girls were killed by air strikes launched by the Nigerian Air Force on their locations.

The video showed a masked armed man standing in front of several girls, who, he claimed, were the over 200 girls abducted from their school hostel at Government Secondary School, Chibok, in 2014.

The man said the video was released to send a message to the parents of the girls to beg the Nigerian government to release Boko Haram members in various detention centers in exchange for the girls.

The man said about 40 of the girls were already married while some were dead.

Boko Haram has been blamed for some 20,000 deaths and displacing of more than 2.6 million people since 2009. Endit