Chibok girls married off – Boko Haram

A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the more than 200 girls kidnapped by the sect six months ago had been “married off” to its fighters, contradicting Nigerian government claims they would soon be freed, AFP reports on Saturday.
Nigeria’s military said it killed Shekau a year ago.
The insurgents usually give a copy of their videos to the French news agency about a day before they are posted online. The latest is likely to raise doubts about whether talks between a Boko Haram faction and the government in neighboring Chad will secure the girls’ release, Reuters says.
The man claiming to be Shekau also denied there was a ceasefire pending talks, and said his group was holding a German hostage kidnapped in Gombe in July.
Gunmen, widely assumed to be linked to Boko Haram, kidnapped the teacher from a technical college.
“We have married them off. They are in their marital homes,” AFP quoted Shekau as saying of the girls kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, in April.
“Don’t you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran.”
Shekau’s denial of the ceasefire appears supported by the violence that has occurred since the government announced it two weeks ago. It also raises doubts about the actual influence of Danladi Ahmadu, the man with whom the government is negotiating.