Islamist coven's leader rules out future talks with Nigerian government and says abducted schoolgirls will not be returned
Abubakar Shekau said of the abducted schoolgirls: 'We have married them off. They are in their marital homes.'.The islamist coven Boko Haram has denied claims by Nigeria's government that it has agreed to a ceasefire and will release more than 200 abducted schoolgirls.
The announcement came in a video sent to Agence France-Presse on Saturday in which the militant group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, ruled out future talks with the government and said the girls had converted to islam and been married off since being kidnapped more than six months ago.
Some 276 schoolgirls were seized from the remote north-eastern town of Chibok in Borno state in April. Many escaped in the first couple of days but 219 remain missing.
More than 500 women and girls aged from infancy to 65 have been kidnapped by Boko Haram and held in militant camps since 2009, Human Rights Watch said this week, including 60 reportedly kidnapped from two towns in north-eastern Nigeria last week. Many have been targeted because they are christians or attending school.
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