Video of abducted school girls: Governor Shettima orders Mass Production for Identification by Parents

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has watched with very keen interest a video clip shown on the BBC world service, said to have been released by members of the Boko Haram sect. Governor Shettima has directed transfer of the video into mobile storage devices under the care of some officials,including the Chairman of Chibok local government area, who have been given an immediate task of showing the videos to parents, some of the freed students who know their abducted colleagues, teachers and management staff of Government Secondary School, Chibok, so that the girls in the video can be identified to ascertain if they are part of the abducted students or otherwise. He is however optimistic about the video. Already, some concerned individuals in Maiduguri and Abuja are on the request of the Governor, making efforts to contact parents and relations of some of the abducted girls, who might be within reach to get feedback regarding the video. Governor Shettima views the development as encouraging especially given the fact that some of the girls said they were not harmed. The Governor hopes that the girls did not speak under duress.