A spokesman for the Borno state governor said
parents, students and teachers have now identified
77 of the girls shown in the video, released
Monday by Agence France-Presse, a French news
agency.
“Remember, I also said that on face value, all the
girls in the video are believed to part of the
abducted girls, but Governor Shettima has insisted
that the names of all the girls in the video be
established and compared with school and security
records,” spokesman Isa Gusau said Tuesday.
“The comparison will be done tomorrow as (the)
identification exercise continues through the night
until every person in that video is named,” said
Gusau. Earlier, Shettima had said that relatives had
identified just 54 of the girls. Shettima said he met
with families of the kidnapped girls earlier Tuesday
in Borno state’s capital, Maiduguri, at which time
the families identified some of their girls.
Shettima said the others also attended the school,
but he did not explain how he knew that.
CNN has not yet received confirmation from any
parents that their daughters were among the girls
shown in the video. Some relatives also told CNN that more than 50
parents of girls abducted last month watched the
videos in the Mbalala district and also in Chibok,
and didn’t see any of their daughters in the crowd.
That’s not necessarily surprising — the video
shows about 100 girls, not the full 276 abducted
from Chibok by Boko Haram. .
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