The leader of Boko Haram on Monday
threatened to sell more than 200 schoolgirls his Islamist militant group
kidnapped in northeastern Nigeria last month.
Boko Haram militants stormed an
all-girl secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, on April 14
and packed the teenagers, who had been taking exams, onto trucks and
disappeared into a remote area along the border with Cameroon.
The attack shocked Nigerians, who have been
growing accustomed to hearing about atrocities in an increasingly bloody
five-year-old Islamist insurgency in the north. "I abducted your girls. I
will sell them in the market, by Allah," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
says in a video, chuckling as he stands in front of an armoured personnel
carrier with two masked militants wielding AK-47s on either side of him.
"Allah has instructed me to sell them. They are his property and I will
carry out his instructions," he says.
Boko Haram, seen as the main security threat
to Nigeria, Africa's leading energy producer, is growing bolder and extending
its reach.
The kidnapping occurred on the day a bomb blast, also blamed on Boko
Haram, killed 75 people on the edge of Abuja
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