According to the BBC, the Boko Haram insurgent group has claimed responsibility for the kidnap of over 200 girls in Chibok, Borno state.
The claim was made through a video of the sect leader, Abubakar Shekau.
In the video, Shekau states “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,”
“There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women,”
“I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine,”
The girls were kidnapped from the dormitory of Government Secondary School, Chibok, on the night of April 14.
The actual number of girls kidnapped is yet to be verified with all accounts saying over 200 are still missing.
President Goodluck Jonathan had said during the Presidential Media Chat on Sunday that the federal government has not been able to locate the girls.
“From that day (of the abductions), till today, security personnel have been searching everywhere. All the information that have been volunteered to us, we’ve searched the places. We have used aircraft, helicopters that have the ability to scan what is on the surfaces. And we have scanned.”