We will marry off Chibok girls because they are our slaves— shekau

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram today said all the girls abducted at GGSS Chibok, Borno State over 20 days ago are in his custody and is treating them as booty of war. In the 57-minutes video, none of the girls was shown and […]

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram today said all the girls abducted at GGSS Chibok, Borno State over 20 days ago are in his custody and is treating them as booty of war.

In the 57-minutes video, none of the girls was shown and Shekau said he will sell them in the markets.

” We would also give their hands in marriage because they are our slaves. We would marry them out at the age of nine. We would marry them out at the age of 12,”  he said.

Shekau spoke in Hausa and Arabic languages, stressing that he captured the girls because they are attending formal school.

“Western education is sin, it is forbidden, women must go and marry,” he said.

He also justify the abductions of the girls to the incarceration of his members in Nigerian prisons and did not give any condition for the release of the girls.

The video could not be independently verified.